Vodafone blogs hijacked by anti-cuts protestors
The blogs at Vodafone's flagship CSR World of Difference site have been hijacked by UKUncut - after one of the competition winners leaked them the password.
Hacked Vodafone blog
UK Uncut have targeted Vodafone since October, shutting down hundred of the mobile phone giant's high street stores in protest against a £6 billion tax dodge. Despite Vodafone trying to brush off the allegations, the National Audit Office have recently opened an investigation into HMRC's controversial tax settlements with the company.
Vodafone's World of Difference programme is their highly-publicised charity scheme, which awards small grants to people to undertake charity work. Each of these winners has a blog on World of Difference website. UK Uncut were leaked the password details by a small group of the winners, who were angry at the company's tax avoidance practices.
Vodafone appears to have taken quick action to remove the blog posts in question - you just get error messages now [Update: and they've started to revert to the previous blog posts for each author]. But the screenshot above is evidence they were there.
Most of us have to manage our reputation but when you are vodafone you get to just brush it off - nice! Well if its true you can run but you definitely can't hide... the internet won't let you
£6 billion - that will take a few years to pay back!!!