Mere weeks after a federal judge ruled that U.S. Food and Drug Administration wrongfully approved the dangerous pill responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions, the pro-life organization at the center of the legal battle over abortion drug survived a series of hacks designed to undermine the group’s credibility.
The cyberattackers first targeted the American College of Pediatricians’ “key technology structures, databases, and our financial accounts” and successfully breached at least one of the organization’s archived websites on April 24. During this malicious online assault, approximately 10,000 once-secure Google Drive documents detailing the ACP’s donors, supporters, and beliefs were wrongfully made vulnerable.
Before ACP could lock down the archived website, these documents were “leaked,” as the Daily Signal first reported, to left-wing technology publication Wired. By Tuesday, Wired published an article smearing the ACP for its common sense views that marriage is between a man and a woman, sex cannot be changed, and babies in the womb have a right to life.
ACP eventually regained control of its website, but just two days after Wired’s article was published, hackers once again tried to infiltrate the ACP’s “email distribution platform.”
“This attack was intended to intimidate and incapacitate, and it will be costly to recover, but we will not be intimidated by these illegal bullying tactics that amount to a hate crime. We will continue to promote the health and well-being of children by protecting the rights of born and preborn children, promoting biological integrity, and defending conscience rights for healthcare
