{"id":239881,"date":"2026-07-30T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-unitel-hit-by-cyberattack-ahead-of-historic-angola-stock-market-debut\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:26:11","slug":"angola-unitel-hit-by-cyberattack-ahead-of-historic-angola-stock-market-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-unitel-hit-by-cyberattack-ahead-of-historic-angola-stock-market-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Unitel Hit By Cyberattack Ahead of Historic Angola Stock Market Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Angolan telecom operator Unitel said it detected a cyberattack on its technology infrastructure just one day before its shares were scheduled to begin trading on the Angola Debt and Securities Exchange (BODIVA), disrupting voice, mobile data and internet services nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">The company said it identified the attack at approximately 2:20 a.m. local time on Tuesday, July 28, and immediately activated its incident response and containment procedures. Technical and cybersecurity teams have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607300002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angolan telecom operator Unitel said it detected a cyberattack on its technology infrastructure just one day before its shares were scheduled to begin trading on the Angola Debt and Securities Exchange (BODIVA), disrupting voice, mobile data and internet services nationwide. The company said it identified the attack at approximately 2:20 a.m. local time on Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,7019,3941,4263,49771,12156,13203,8032,4356,257,254,10974,26843],"class_list":["post-239881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-cyberattack","tag-debut","tag-historic","tag-hit","tag-market","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stock","tag-unitel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}