{"id":5602,"date":"2025-07-24T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/hackers-fooled-cognizant-help-desk-says-clorox-in-380m-cyberattack-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:04:39","slug":"hackers-fooled-cognizant-help-desk-says-clorox-in-380m-cyberattack-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/hackers-fooled-cognizant-help-desk-says-clorox-in-380m-cyberattack-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers fooled Cognizant help desk, says Clorox in $380M cyberattack lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hackers fooled Cognizant help desk, says Clorox in $380M cyberattack lawsuit<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Clorox is suing IT giant Cognizant for gross negligence, alleging it enabled a massive August 2023 cyberattack by resetting an employee&#8217;s password for a hacker without first verifying their identity. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/hackers-fooled-cognizant-help-desk-says-clorox-in-380m-cyberattack-lawsuit\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers fooled Cognizant help desk, says Clorox in $380M cyberattack lawsuit Clorox is suing IT giant Cognizant for gross negligence, alleging it enabled a massive August 2023 cyberattack by resetting an employee&#8217;s password for a hacker without first verifying their identity. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,134,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-legal","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602"}],"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=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}