{"id":355834,"date":"2017-08-08T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b73b61afc4ec92d5f0f3f8945d558ec4"},"modified":"2017-08-08T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:23:26","slug":"ap-explains-why-hbo-hackers-demanded-payment-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=355834","title":{"rendered":"AP Explains: Why HBO hackers demanded payment in bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK        (AP) &#8212; The digital currency Bitcoin is the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/c6a3301f977f445f96e52c9749c61477\">payment of choice<\/a> for HBO&amp;apos;s cyberattackers. The hackers demand what they say is their &amp;quot;6-month salary&amp;quot; in bitcoin, suggesting it&amp;apos;s at least $6 million&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK        (AP) &#8212; The digital currency Bitcoin is the payment of choice for HBO&amp;apos;s cyberattackers. The hackers demand what they say is their &amp;quot;6-month salary&amp;quot; in bitcoin, suggesting it&amp;apos;s at least $6 million&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355835,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355834\/revisions\/355835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}