{"id":10142,"date":"2020-11-21T11:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=74397"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:38:15","slug":"manchester-united-hit-by-cyber-attack-ahead-of-their-clash-with-west-brom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/manchester-united-hit-by-cyber-attack-ahead-of-their-clash-with-west-brom\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United hit by cyber attack ahead of their clash with West Brom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Manchester United confirmed that the club has been hit by a cyber attack.<br \/>\nUnited released a statement stating has been attacked by high-end Cyber Criminals. Albeit the there\u2019s disruption. The fixtures against West Brom, on Saturday, would go as per schedule.<\/p>\n<p>As per statements released by the Club stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club has taken swift actions to contain the attack and is currently working with expert advisers to investigate the incident and minimise the ongoing IT disruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough this is a sophisticated operation by organised cybercriminals, the club has extensive protocols and procedures in place for such an event and had rehearsed for this risk.<br \/>\n\u201cOur cyber defences identified the attack and shut down affected systems to contain the damage and protect data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClub media channels, including our website and mobile app, are unaffected and we are not currently aware of any breach of personal data associated with our fans or customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll critical systems required for matches to take place at Old Trafford remain secure and operational and tomorrow\u2019s game against West Bromwich Albion will go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United are currently at 14th position in the points table. United will try to earn three crucial points against WBA, which is placed 18th in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Manchester United confirmed that the club has been hit by a cyber attack. United released a statement stating\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":32650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1001,985,984,249,218,1067],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-english-football","tag-fa","tag-fifa","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-west-brom"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}