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Is Planned Parenthood faking a hack on their website?

4 points by jmolyneaux ↗ HN
Planned Parenthood's website source contains suspicious code that someone more knowledgeable than myself should look deeper into:

    <body class="site_down_template no-write edit-disabled"
		 data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"
		 data-page-type="Site Down Template"
		 ontouchstart="">

    <meta name="title" 
       property="title" 
       content="Our site is down due to extremists :: Planned Parenthood"/>
An image has since been replaced:

    <link rel="image_src" href="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>
There are reports that the CSS was tweaked during the hack:

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/626603985932316673

Planned Parenthood also seems to have changed their story on Facebook multiple times:

https://twitter.com/SooperMexican/status/626606261577097216

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deadbeef404
I don't see how having a "site down" template is anything suspicious. I have a page that I replace my company's web-app with when I'm performing upgrades; they could have easily made their's a generic template and customised it to the situation.

Changing the CSS on the site during the hack? I don't see how that implies anything other than someone in their large organisation had the idea to change the CSS to improve the readability.

And I'm not seeing how their story has changed, just new statuses with different wording..

adamthebig
If you look at the source of the current landing page, they left in the hacking nonsense.

<!-- Facebook Social --> <meta name="og:title" property="og:title" content="Our site is down :: Planned Parenthood"/> <meta name="og:description" property="og:description" content="Planned Parenthood has been providing trusted health care for nearly 100 years. Learn about pregnancy."/> <meta name="og:image" property="og:image" content="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>

		<link rel="image_src" 
			 href="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>