{"id":362109,"date":"2026-04-03T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362109\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:41:07","slug":"italian-art-museum-hit-by-cyberattack-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/362109\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian art museum hit by cyberattack \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The museum insisted no passwords or security maps were stolen and that the systems involved were closed-circuit and not accessible from outside, with \u201cno information lost.\u201d The transfer of items to the vaults, including Medici-era treasures, was unrelated to the cyberattack but due to ongoing renovations.<\/p>\n<p>The episode quickly turned political. <\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister and ex-Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi tore into Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s government, accusing Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli of failing to protect one of Italy\u2019s most iconic cultural institutions in his home city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHackers attack the Uffizi and threaten our cultural heritage. What is Minister Giuli doing?\u201d Renzi <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/matteorenzi\/status\/2040002112067674471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a> on Friday. \u201cHas he even noticed, or is he too busy playing the flute \u2026 or stirring up controversies?\u201d he added, also questioning the role of Italy\u2019s cybersecurity agency and vowing to demand answers.<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes just weeks after three paintings by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/30\/world\/europe\/parma-art-heist-renoir-matisse-cezanne-italy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were stolen<\/a> from a museum on the outskirts of the northern region of Parma \u2014 a reminder that not even the greats of art are safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The museum insisted no passwords or security maps were stolen and that the systems involved were closed-circuit and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,1510,501,156,1221,18723,1224,190561,17250,1073,111,139,69,18047,2437],"class_list":{"0":"post-362109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-cybersecurity","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-hackers","17":"tag-italy","18":"tag-matteo-renzi","19":"tag-mayors","20":"tag-media","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-renovation","25":"tag-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}