Some personal information of Planned Parenthood employees has been leaked following a cyber attack Sunday night, reports Nick Shively.
Hundreds of names and email addresses of Planned Parenthood Federation of America employees across the nation were leaked after a security breach on Sunday night.
The names and contact information for more than 300 Planned Parenthood employees have been published on a private website hosted by a group of hackers, part of an organization called 3301.
The group put out a statement making explicit that it targeted Planned Parenthood.
“We've noticed quite a lot of attention has been diverted to a supposedly malicious organization known as Planned Parenthood. The actions of this 'federation' are not seen as right in the eyes of the public. So here we are, the social justice warriors.”
This is obviously a new front of intimidation for right wingers. As we noted here, anti-abortion extremists have a history of intimidating and sometimes killing Americans working to preserve women's reproductive options.
A Planned Parenthood spokesperson called the hackers activities "criminal" and said it had contacted the FBI and Department of Justice.
