{"id":217074,"date":"2025-07-03T06:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/spain-arrests-hackers-who-targeted-politicians-and-journalists"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:15:16","slug":"spain-arrests-hackers-who-targeted-politicians-and-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/spain-arrests-hackers-who-targeted-politicians-and-journalists","title":{"rendered":"Spain arrests hackers who targeted politicians and journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sfx6fPVWaOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish police have arrested two individuals in the province of Las Palmas for their alleged involvement in cybercriminal activity, including data theft from the country\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>The duo has been described as a \u201cserious threat to national security\u201d and focused their attacks on high-ranking state officials as well as journalists. They leaked samples of the stolen data online to build notoriety and inflate the selling price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation began when agents detected the leakage of personal data affecting high-level institutions of the State across various mass communication channels and social networks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/policia.es\/_es\/comunicacion_prensa_detalle.php?ID=16602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reads the police announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish police have arrested two individuals in the province of Las Palmas for their alleged involvement in cybercriminal activity, including data theft from the country\u2019s government. The duo has been described as a \u201cserious threat to national security\u201d and focused their attacks on high-ranking state officials as well as journalists. They leaked samples of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217074","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}