{"id":51204,"date":"2017-04-07T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/answerphone-hackers-rack-up-5000-in-calls-all-charged-to-us\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T06:15:20","slug":"answerphone-hackers-rack-up-5000-in-calls-all-charged-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/answerphone-hackers-rack-up-5000-in-calls-all-charged-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Answerphone hackers rack up \u00a35,000 in calls \u2013 all charged to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAfter criminals hijacked our phone to route calls abroad, our insurer and system operator both refused to pay outI work for a small charity in Benwell, Newcastle, where we have been the victim of phone system hacking that has resulted in a bill of almost \u00a35,000 over a four-day period. We have been informed by our phone system supplier, Chaser Communications, that the hackers gained remote access to our phone system via our answering machine, and were somehow able to route calls to Syria at a premium rate. We have reported it to our local police and Action Fraud, but this has been no help. Our insurer has said we are not covered for a cyber attack, while Chaser says it will have to pass on the charges to us.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/apr\/07\/answerphone-hackers-charity-calls-fraud-chaser-communications\" target=\"_blank\">Answerphone hackers rack up \u00a35,000 in calls \u2013 all charged to us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; After criminals hijacked our phone to route calls abroad, our insurer and system operator both&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-djS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68848,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hackers-rack-up-12000-phone-bill-and-providers-passed-it-on-to-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":51204,"position":0},"title":"Hackers rack up \u00a312,000 phone bill and providers passed it on to me","date":"October 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Pennine and Focus Group blame each other after hundreds of premium rate overseas calls were billed to my companyI run a small company and incur monthly phone bills of about \u00a3140. 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