Arrest after BPAS abortion advice service site hacked

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A man suspected of computer hacking is being questioned by police after the website of one of Britain’s largest abortion providers was accessed.

The 27-year-old claims to have links to hacktivist group Anonymous.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said no medical or personal information relating to women who had received treatment had been accessed.

But it took out a court injunction after details of people who requested information was compromised.

Police said they were alerted to allegations that the BPAS website had been hacked on Thursday.

Claims later appeared on Twitter that the culprit had accessed the names of women who had undergone terminations and was threatening to release them into the public domain.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17309772
 
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Claims later appeared on Twitter that the culprit had accessed the names of women who had undergone terminations and was threatening to release them into the public domain.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17309772
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I participate in pro-life prayer vigils across from BPAS and do not find moral purpose to public disclosure of any information on these women. :mad:
 
[An individual, who uses the alias] ‘Pablo Escobar’ tweeted on Thursday that he had hacked the site, including an image of the defaced BPAS homepage that showed the Anonymous logo above a message calling abortion murder.
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A link to Anonymous would be intriguing if true, given that Anonymous apparently attacked the Vatican’s website on Wednesday, partly over the Catholic church’s anti-abortion stance.
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zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/man-arrested-over-hacking-of-abortion-provider-site-10025592/
 
I’ll be honest, I don’t know a fat lot about this “Anonymous” group. All I know is that they use the “Guy Fawkes” mask as their logo. Does anyone else find it ironic that Fawkes himself was a Catholic? I can’t see Fawkes, given the historical implications of his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot, hacking the Vatican.
 
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