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Planned Parenthood, planned “hacking”?

9 points by jmolyneaux ↗ HN
Starting with the body tag with a suspicious attribute: `data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"`

    <body class="site_down_template no-write edit-disabled"
		 data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"
		 data-page-type="Site Down Template"
		 ontouchstart="">
The headline on the main page has since removed the text "Our site is down due to extremists", but the phrase still remains in some metadata in the head:

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

    <meta name="og:image" 
	      property="og:image" 
	      content="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>
Reports that Planned Parenthood tweaked CSS and changed their story on Facebook multiple times:

http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/30/planned-parenthood-hacking-sure-looks-like-an-orchestrated-pr-stunt/

2 comments

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bennettfeely
It just seems odd that these "extremist" hackers only made it easier for people to donate to Planned Parenthood in this time of "crisis."