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FpU website hacked

From Aftenposten · () Norwegian

Translated from Norwegian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Norway’s Progress Party Youth, or FpU, said its website had been hacked and that it had redirected traffic to the Progress Party’s website as a temporary measure.
  • The compromised site appeared to promote slogans calling for measures including alcohol service to people of all ages and legal sex with minors.

The website of Norway’s Progress Party Youth, FpU, was hacked and began displaying what Dagbladet described as a “shocking message.”

FpU confirmed the incident to the newspaper. “We discovered the incident and have implemented the necessary measures to secure the website. As a temporary measure, traffic is now being redirected to the Progress Party’s website,” FpU leader Lars Andreas Scheie Vartdal wrote in a message to Dagbladet.

Under the slogan “A freer age limit,” the altered site appeared to present positions including “serving alcohol to Norwegians of all ages,” “legal sex with minors” and “illegal filming,” according to the report.

We discovered the incident and have implemented the necessary measures to secure the website. As a temporary measure, traffic is now being redirected to the Progress Party’s website.

· Lars Andreas Scheie VartdalThe FpU leader confirmed the website hack and described the temporary response.
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Originally published by Aftenposten in Norwegian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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