Following Scrapbook’s exposé this morning, the Conservatives’ flagship Cash Gordon campaign has been taken down after hackers targeted the site with a rudimentary code injection attack. The twitter stream on cash-gordon.com allowed mischievous tweeters to redirect visitors anywhere they wanted:
Users were lucky to escape with a rick-rolling (above) as those less fortunate were redirected to pornography.
After berating Scrapbook for several hours, CCHQ staffers Sam Coates and Craig Elder have gone strangely quiet.
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Brilliant, the modern tories dont even understand the internet and how powerful it has become.
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