{"id":164087,"date":"2023-05-17T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/russian-computer-breached-dc-metro-system-watchdog"},"modified":"2023-05-17T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T03:22:41","slug":"russian-computer-breached-dc-metro-system-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/russian-computer-breached-dc-metro-system-watchdog","title":{"rendered":"Russian computer breached DC Metro system: watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-computer-breached-dc-metro-system-watchdog2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A computer based in Russia was able to breach the Washington, D.C., Metro system earlier this year, the Metro\u2019s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) said in a new report.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wmataoig.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MAR-OIG-Concerns-Over-Critical-Cybersecurity-Vulnerabilities-That-Remain-Unresolved-IG-Final_Redacted-SECURED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The partially redacted report<\/a>, released Wednesday and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2023\/05\/17\/dc-metro-russia-breach-cyber\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2023\/05\/17\/dc-metro-russia-breach-cyber\/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported by The Washington Post<\/a>, said the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority\u2019s (WMATA) cybersecurity group detected \u201cabnormal network activity originating in Russia\u201d in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer based in Russia was able to breach the Washington, D.C., Metro system earlier this year, the Metro\u2019s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) said in a new report. The partially redacted report, released Wednesday and first reported by The Washington Post, said the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority\u2019s (WMATA) cybersecurity group detected \u201cabnormal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}