{"id":1630,"date":"2025-01-30T02:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T02:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/ex-worker-arrested-after-shutdown-of-british-museum-computer-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T02:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T02:03:21","slug":"ex-worker-arrested-after-shutdown-of-british-museum-computer-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/ex-worker-arrested-after-shutdown-of-british-museum-computer-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-worker arrested after \u2018shutdown\u2019 of British Museum computer systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ex-worker arrested after \u2018shutdown\u2019 of British Museum computer systems<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>London&#8217;s world-famous British Museum was forced to partially close its doors at the end of last week, following a serious security breach involving a former IT contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the museum on Friday after a recently dismissed worker allegedly trespassed onto the museum site and was able to shut down various systems, including the museum&#8217;s ticketing platform.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/ex-worker-arrested-after-shutdown-of-british-museum-computer-systems\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-worker arrested after \u2018shutdown\u2019 of British Museum computer systems London&#8217;s world-famous British Museum was forced to partially close its doors at the end of last week, following a serious security breach involving a former IT contractor. Police were called to the museum on Friday after a recently dismissed worker allegedly trespassed onto the museum site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[658,54,155,659,164,486],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-museum","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-insider-threat","category-law-order","category-security-threats","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}