UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans
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The UK Home Office’s 2022 “No Place to Hide” anti-encryption campaign site was briefly hijacked to insert a payday loan promotion linking to Wage Day Advance—despite an FCA notice about cloned firms—with the injected section removed then reappearing; the incident exemplifies a broader trend of SEO-driven hijacking of abandoned/outsourced campaign domains (also seen on Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and U.S. government pages), with the Home Office not responding and Wage Day Loans blaming outsourced SEO and requesting removal.
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