When Twitchy reported Monday that Planned Parenthood’s employee and email databases had allegedly been hacked, we found ourselves using words like “allegedly” and “reportedly” quite a bit. The Daily Dot, which broke the news, reported that the hackers “say they attempted to deface Planned Parenthood’s site” but couldn’t because the site’s “backend is so terribly configured.”
So much for Planned Parenthood’s claim that “extremists who oppose Planned Parenthood’s mission and services … have called on the world’s most sophisticated hackers to assist them in breaching our systems.” Defacing a homepage is Hacking 101.
It looks like the world’s most sophisticated hackers finally were able to alter Planned Parenthood’s site, yet as Jill Stanek notes, these anti-abortion extremists handily left control of the page to Planned Parenthood so they could let you know how many people they provide care for every day.
"Extremists have wrecked our site. Fortunately, they let us control this page so we can tell you how awful they are." pic.twitter.com/sIIQROCeAg
— Jill Stanek (@JillStanek) July 30, 2015
@JillStanek @Heminator yeah, this is definitely manufactured.
— Josh Fields (@partiallypro) July 30, 2015
This is just laughable now. Good to see @PPact is getting their money's worth out of @SKDKnick pic.twitter.com/X0iBMC7XTr
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
https://twitter.com/NationofJake/status/626593224392454144
@redsteeze @PPact @SKDKnick someone is trying to play "victim" and failing miserably.
— drea marie (@dreamarie23) July 30, 2015
OJ fleeing to Mexico with a disguise, gun and a bag full of cash in a speeding bronco wasn't this obvious. @PPact
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
All this needs now is a picture of @BarackObama looking forlornly at the @PPact outage page.
— Jim Jamitis (@anthropocon) July 30, 2015
An attack on Planned Parenthood's website is an attack on the 200k people who go there for health info every day. http://t.co/Ca5w1EJy9M
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) July 30, 2015
You should warn your supporters never to donate to a compromised website. https://t.co/zgYznFN4eU
— jon gabriel (@exjon) July 30, 2015
@exjon Heh… "We got hacked! Give us your credit card info to help us fix it!" doesn't exactly inspire confidence eh?
— DeltaX78 (@DeltaX78) July 30, 2015
I called PP out on this fun PR game they are currently playing 2 weeks ago. Give it a read @billburton. http://t.co/BENBTfvrxl
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
Not a very good PR firm if a goofy blogger in Brooklyn can predict your crisis strategy 2 weeks before it happens pic.twitter.com/CxgRaISaOO
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
https://twitter.com/chuck_dizzle/status/626597304695287808
I don’t believe PP was hacked. But they CHOSE to take site down after the “attack” was over. AFTER. Voluntarily.
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 30, 2015
LOL They took it down again! https://t.co/8y9sPUiLxE
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 30, 2015
Someone got a phone call.https://t.co/ubaRedsGj9
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
PP's homepage at :05 & :45 after . My screenshots. This is so much fun. pic.twitter.com/M8EXDpv5FG
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
So their site wasn't actually down when they said it was down but now it's actually down down. #FTPFTW pic.twitter.com/w4AI63sgkk
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
We were hacked but not really hacked but we had to make it look like we were hacked because shit this all looks bad just take it down.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
And we're back up to being fake hacked! pic.twitter.com/n9a0acBOJj
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
Their site is so hacked right now that someone has been rearranging CSS fonts and alignment. pic.twitter.com/7vxO4siXJH
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
1. PP changes landing page to – "see what happens, hacked!"
2. Learn more" Link on page leads to Facebook campaign.
Total PR smear job— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
They even titled their landing page "Campaigns" and misspelled "Template" in source coding. Hilarious. pic.twitter.com/OY6NZzBDvd
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2015
We don’t know what if anything crisis management firm SKDKnickerbocker might have to do with this, but we do know the Syrian Electronic Army does exceptional hacking work. Abortion’s not their issue, but for the price of a Lamborghini, say, they could work something out.
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