{"id":631691,"date":"2026-07-19T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=832142"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:30:03","slug":"kenya-investigates-president-william-ruto-website-breach-as-hackers-demand-5-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/kenya-investigates-president-william-ruto-website-breach-as-hackers-demand-5-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Investigates President William Ruto Website Breach as Hackers Demand 5 Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/kenya-investigates-president-william-ruto-website-breach-as-hackers-demand-5-bitcoin-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kenyan President William Ruto\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Hackers briefly disabled the official website of Kenyan President William Ruto on July 18, demanded a ransom of five bitcoins and threatened to leak unspecified data if not paid. Government Response Triggered Kenya\u2019s government is investigating a cybersecurity breach that briefly disabled the official website of President William Ruto on July 18, with attackers defacing [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers briefly disabled the official website of Kenyan President William Ruto on July 18, demanded a ransom of five bitcoins and threatened to leak unspecified data if not paid. Government Response Triggered Kenya\u2019s government is investigating a cybersecurity breach that briefly disabled the official website of President William Ruto on July 18, with attackers defacing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-631691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}