UPDATE, 1:30 p.m.: Got in touch with the president of the PAC. He said he was upset. Added comment to the end of the story.





A small New Jersey-based political action committee had its website torn to little, vulgar shreds last night by lunatics who appear to have come from the popular internet messageboard site 4chan. They reportedly got in by guessing the password, which was, uh, "p9ssw0rd."





PAC President Don Adams said Friday afternoon that the group was pursuing legal action.

(To be safe, assume none of the following links are safe for work.)





The PAC raised about $27,000 in 2010 (this link is safe for work) and donated to politicians in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. It has raised almost nothing this election cycle, but presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed the group last month. Its website, at independencehallteaparty.com, was still online and being actively vandalized at 3 a.m., though it seems prudent to avoid it for the time being.









"I really don't know if I want to make a comment about it," Adams said this afternoon. "We're an all-volunteer organization, and our goal is to try to limit government, lower taxes, and promote free enterprise. And if that's such an awful thing, there's obviously something wrong."





He also added, "There's obviously something wrong with the people who did this." He pointed to the Romney event as evidence that "we have been very effective, and I think that's a reason they've come after us... It's just very upsetting."