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Mon May 27, 2013, 02:36 PM May 2013

Hackers hit petition site Change.org, official says

Change.org was hacked late Friday by someone who made "cosmetic" changes on the popular petition website, officials said.

No personal information was stolen, spokesman Benjamin Joffe-Walt said in a written statement. He added that none of the 12 petitions targeted had its number of signatures affected.

The modified petitions included one calling for officials to end the prosecution of a Florida teen charged in connection with a same-sex relationship with a 14-year-old; a petition to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay; and a petition to allow gay Boy Scouts leaders, said Brianna Cayo-Cotter, a spokeswoman for Change.org.

Change.org officials believe the petitions were selected because they were all in a featured section of the website and weren't picked because of the causes they represent, she said.

full: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/26/tech/change-website-hacked/index.html

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