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Viagra Spam on NRCC Website

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Hacking may have lasted more than four hours.

The National Republican Congressional Committee’s website was hacked over the weekend, with its youth-baiting, BuzzFeed-style content like “7 Tweets That Show Just How Painful Obama’s Press Conference Was” replaced with spam for Viagra and Cialis. “In other words, the hackers attacked Republicans’ young people’s website with spam directed at the GOP’s traditional demographic, old men,” says The Atlantic Wire’s Elspeth Reeve. The hack was first spotted on Sunday night but was quickly fixed Monday morning.

Read it at The Atlantic Wire