Anonymous hacker confesses to stealing abortion database records

A hacker linked with the Anonymous movement has admitted to breaking into the website of Britain’s biggest abortion service, and stealing the records of approximately 10,000 people.

27-year-old James Jeffery, of Wednesbury in the British West Midlands, stole the personal details of some 10,000 women from the website of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), and then bragged on Twitter that he would release the information to the public.

In addition, the hacker defaced BPAS’s website, posting an anti-abortion message.

An unborn child does not have an opinion, a choice or any rights. Who gave you the right to murder that unborn child and profit from that murder?
“The product, abortion, is skilfully marketed and sold to women at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, and…

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