{"id":9367,"date":"2023-02-20T15:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:45:02","slug":"hackers-cripple-philadelphia-orchestra-kimmel-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/02\/20\/hackers-cripple-philadelphia-orchestra-kimmel-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Cripple Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9368\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/02\/Kimmel_Center_Concert_Hall_Philadelphia.jpg\" alt=\"Kimmel Center\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kimmel Center Concert Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Photo: Carol M. Highsmith\/Creative Commons\/Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Philadelphia Orchestra<\/strong> and <strong>Kimmel Center<\/strong> have been affected by a cyberattack that has hobbled their ticketing systems for over a week.<\/p>\n<h3>What we know<\/h3>\n<p>Organization officials have not confirmed if this was a ransomware attack, only that they are being disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has offered assistance investigating the incident, but they have assured that no customer credit card information or donor data has been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>This attack is unprecedented in the arts center\u2019s 21-year history. Arts center leaders are working with cybersecurity experts to restore the full functionality of their websites soon.<\/p>\n<h3>Targeting the arts<\/h3>\n<p>The MET Opera was targeted in a cyberattack that shut them down for over a week in early December.<\/p>\n<p>According to Slippedisc, the MET was targeted with another bot attack last week that took their site down for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>There are also reports that Vienna Opera may have been cyberattacked last week after their website was taken offline.<\/p>\n<h3>Why is this happening?<\/h3>\n<p>In an interview with the FBI spokesperson Carrie Adamowski with the Philadelphia Enquirer, she said they are unaware of any trends targeting arts organizations.<\/p>\n<p>She added that criminals probe nonstop, looking for vulnerabilities in networks holding personal or financial data of employees\/customers, which can be monetized or posted online.<\/p>\n<h3>Hard facts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.checkpoint.com\/2023\/01\/05\/38-increase-in-2022-global-cyberattacks\/#:~:text=Global%20cyberattacks%20increased%20by%2038,%2Dlearning%20post%20COVID%2D19.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check Point Research<\/a>, cyberattacks worldwide increased by 38% from 2021-2022.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/reports\/threat-intelligence\/\">IBM report<\/a> states manufacturing, finance and insurance sectors were most hit by similar incidents globally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center have been affected by a cyberattack that has hobbled their ticketing systems for over a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3],"tags":[203,202,201],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/02\/Kimmel_Center_Concert_Hall_Philadelphia.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9369,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions\/9369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}