{"id":245377,"date":"2026-05-13T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/town-of-surfside-beach-responds-to-potential-cybersecurity-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:45:08","slug":"town-of-surfside-beach-responds-to-potential-cybersecurity-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/town-of-surfside-beach-responds-to-potential-cybersecurity-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Town of Surfside Beach responds to potential cybersecurity incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2026\/05\/13\/town-surfside-beach-responds-potential-cybersecurity-incident\/\">Town of Surfside Beach responds to potential cybersecurity incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2026\/05\/13\/town-surfside-beach-responds-potential-cybersecurity-incident\/\">https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2026\/05\/13\/town-surfside-beach-responds-potential-cybersecurity-incident\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 16:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wmbfnews.com\">www.wmbfnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">SURFSIDE BEACH, SC (WMBF) &#8211; The Town of Surfside Beach has issued a statement regarding its cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Town officials said the potential incident involving its email system has been reported to local, state, and federal law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An independent cybersecurity specialist will conduct a forensic investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Surfside Beach also said federal law enforcement has said that cyber incidents involving email systems are increasingly common and are affecting individuals and organizations, including municipalities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is active, and more information will be provided when it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with WMBF. For more free content like this, download our apps. Have feedback that can help us improve? Click here.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMBF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2026\/05\/13\/town-surfside-beach-responds-potential-cybersecurity-incident\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Surfside Beach responds to potential cybersecurity incident https:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/2026\/05\/13\/town-surfside-beach-responds-potential-cybersecurity-incident\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-13 16:24:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wmbf-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/BT2FVB25YRFHZA2PX75JO6OMYQ.jpg?auth=5e65c4bf3221271c09ec4cec5b5af138a6e696358725bd92c318ac2ac9f57043&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245381,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245377\/revisions\/245381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}