{"id":247776,"date":"2026-05-14T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:40:22","slug":"town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Town of Surfside Beach investigates cybersecurity incident involving emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails\">Town of Surfside Beach investigates cybersecurity incident involving emails<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails\">https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 10:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wpde.com\">wpde.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Town of Surfside Beach said they recently identified a potential cybersecurity incident involving its &#8220;email environment,&#8221; according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Upon discovery, the town said they promptly reported the matter to local, state and federal law enforcement authorities and engaged independent cybersecurity specialists to conduct a forensic investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The town said federal law enforcement said &#8220;cyber incidents involving email systems are increasingly common and are affecting individuals and organizations, including municipalities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Town said they take this seriously and are taking appropriate measures.<\/p>\n<p>This is an active investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: Backyard discovery reunites Conway family with lost piece of history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town of Surfside Beach investigates cybersecurity incident involving emails https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/town-of-surfside-beach-investigates-cybersecurity-incident-involving-emails Publish Date: 2026-05-14 10:32:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wpde.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/1280\/1320\/0x8\/90\/1f8ffcb8-2d63-4d65-b74f-aa51d6106990-WPDE_surfsidebeachtowncouncil_2_13_17.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247776","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\/247776"}],"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=247776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247778,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247776\/revisions\/247778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}