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Alderman's campaign site hacked

¶ Toni Preckwinkle distances herself from prayer in schools group on her url

Ald. Toni Preckwinkle's 4th Ward office confirmed that they are not associated with content on the Web site citizensforpreckwinkle.com.

The alderman's office said they noticed the site had been "hacked" several months ago and are looking into who is behind it.

The alderman's campaign Web site was replaced with the content of Operation "Put it Back," a group advocating for prayer in public schools.

It is unclear whether the group had any involvement. The Operation "Put it Back" Web site, operationputitback.org, was registered July 15 to Herstine Wright of the Sunflower Publishing Company of Dolton, Ill., which shares a post office box with Operation "Put it Back." Calls to Wright were not returned as of press time.

Information registered with the Domain Name System, a sort of "phone bank" for registered urls on the Internet that lists administrator names connected to a Web site domain name, provided by InterNic showed that citizensforpreckwinkle.org is still registered to Citizens for Preckwinkle, 4646 S. Drexel Road. The registration was created on Nov. 14, 2002, updated on Dec. 10, 2006, and is not set to expire until Nov. 14.

The code of the sites revealed little of the content's origin beyond that both were created using the popular web-authoring program Dreamweaver MX, citizensforpreckwinkle.org on July 14 and operationputitback.org on July 22.

Pam Cummings at the alderman's office confirmed they had not authorized the content to be put on their site.