{"id":22313,"date":"2011-04-19T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T09:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22313"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:20:03","slug":"china-ai-weiwei-campaign-website-attacked-by-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22313","title":{"rendered":"China: Ai Weiwei campaign website attacked by hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change.org, a website which runs an <a title=\"Guardian: Ai Weiwei campaign website 'victim of Chinese hackers'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2011\/apr\/20\/ai-weiwei-campaign-website-chinese-hackers\" target=\"_blank\">online petition<\/a> calling for the release of <a title=\"Index on Censorship: China\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/China\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese<\/a> dissident Ai Weiwei, has been hit by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. The website had managed to collect over 90,000 signatures for their petition. Ben Rattray, the founder of the website, stated that the attacks <a title=\"Bloomberg: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei\u2019s Online Support Group Attacked by Hackers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-04-20\/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-s-online-support-group-attacked-by-hackers.html\" target=\"_blank\">originated<\/a> from a Chinese internet address. A spokesman for the ministry of information in Beijing said it was not aware of the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change.org, a website which runs an online petition calling for the release of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, has been hit by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. The website had managed to collect over 90,000 signatures for their petition. Ben Rattray, the founder of the website, stated that the attacks originated from a Chinese internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[327,3388,7364,3379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22382,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions\/22382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}