{"id":61684,"date":"2014-01-29T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=61684"},"modified":"2014-01-29T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:39:19","slug":"angry-birds-website-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/61684-angry-birds-website-hacked","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds websites hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment Ltd. says the popular game&#8217;s home pages have been hacked, two days after reports that the personal data of its customers might have been accessed by U.S. and British spy agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Rovio spokeswoman says the hacking lasted a few minutes early Wednesday and that end-user data &#8220;was in no risk at any point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hacking came after documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden suggested that the NSA and Britain&#8217;s GCHQ had been able to extract information through a host of smartphone apps across the globe, including the Angry Birds game franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Rovio has denied the claims, saying it does not &#8220;share data, collaborate or collude&#8221; with any spy agencies and that it would re-evaluate third-party advertising networks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61663-legend-of-grimrock-2-screens-and-details-revealed.html\">Legend of Grimrock 2 screens and details revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61676-nintendo-boss-cuts-his-own-pay-following-wii-u-failure.html\">Nintendo boss cuts his salary following Wii U failure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61665-square-enix-takes-a-stab-at-supporting-indie-devs.html\">Square Enix takes a stab at supporting indie devs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/61670-sa-game-pixel-boy-heading-to-wii-u.html\">SA game Pixel Boy heading to Wii U<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Birds creator Rovio says the popular game&#8217;s home pages have been hacked in the wake of claims its customer data may have been accessed by US and British spy agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":48878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,355,1576],"class_list":["post-61684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-angry-birds","tag-rovio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}