Uk Uncut Hack Vodafone Website !

Anti-cuts campaigners from UK Uncut have hacked into the website of telephone giant Vodafone (http://worldofdifference.vodafone.co.uk/) and posted blogs claiming the companionship has avoided millions of pounds inwards tax.

The group, gear upward to oppose regime cuts in addition to corporate tax avoidance, has staged hundreds of straight activity protests against companies in addition to banks since it was formed v months ago, many focusing on alleged taxation avoidance.

Activists took over the blogs on the World of Difference website, the company's corporate in addition to social responsibleness initiative, demanding the companionship "pays its tax". Twenty minutes afterward activists hacked that department of Vodafone's website, it appeared to cause got been taken down.

The World of Difference programme awards pocket-sized grants to immature people to undertake charity function in addition to each winner has a weblog on the website. UK Uncut were leaked the password details past times a pocket-sized grouping of the winners, who were angry at the firm's alleged taxation avoidance practices.

One of the winners that leaked the passwords, who wished to stay anonymous, said: "Vodafone brand a big bargain out of their funding to charity, merely their charitable giving pales into insignificance compared to the £6bn they got away without paying inwards tax.

"I function for a charity in addition to empathize how the government's cruel spending cuts volition hitting the poorest in addition to nearly vulnerable. So many charities, including mine, are nether threat. Vodafone's taxation dodge solitary could pay for every cutting to every charity inwards the country."

Vodafone cause got denied that they avoided a £6bn taxation liability.

Activists said dozens of messages would endure posted on Vodafone's website, including photos in addition to videos of Britain Uncut's actions at Vodafone stores in addition to details of about of the cuts that could endure avoided if the regime cracked downwards on taxation avoidance.

UK Uncut's Fiona Samuels, 31, said: "These cuts are non necessary, non fair in addition to at that spot are alternatives. People across the province are angry in addition to willing to cope to forestall unprecedented cuts to populace services."

Vodafone responded to the hacking of the website, saying: "We've seen a twain of posts on World of Difference winners' blogs relating to allegations of taxation avoidance. Given these are incorrect, they cause got been removed.

"World of Difference winners are doing slap-up things for charities upward in addition to downwards the country. It's rattling lamentable to run across how depression people volition become to farther spread misinformation in addition to for the charitable programme to endure used every bit a platform for this sort of protest."

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