{"id":596661,"date":"2023-01-11T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/a-fake-company-unsuspecting-money-mules-and-bitcoin-how-a-manitoba-municipality-lost-430k\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:00:58","slug":"a-fake-company-unsuspecting-money-mules-and-bitcoin-how-a-manitoba-municipality-lost-430k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/a-fake-company-unsuspecting-money-mules-and-bitcoin-how-a-manitoba-municipality-lost-430k\/","title":{"rendered":"A fake company, unsuspecting &#8216;money mules&#8217; and bitcoin: How a Manitoba municipality lost $430K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2020, the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone became the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack\u00a0\u2014 one that involved\u00a0a fake company tricking\u00a0over a dozen students and new Canadians into acting as intermediaries to\u00a0bilk the municipality out\u00a0of more than $470,000&#8230;<br \/> Sharie Volkman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/gladstone-bitcoin-cyberattack-1.6675269?cmp=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2020, the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone became the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack\u00a0\u2014 one that involved\u00a0a fake company tricking\u00a0over a dozen students and new Canadians into acting as intermediaries to\u00a0bilk the municipality out\u00a0of more than $470,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,117908],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company","category-unsuspecting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}