Campaigners protesting against tax avoidence have reportedly hijacked the website of Vodafone in the United Kingdom, although briefly. The hijacked website was used to demand that the network operator group pay more tax to the UK government.

The grassroots movement called UK uncut, which is calling on big firms including retailers and banks to pay more tax to avoid the public spending cuts clamied on thursday success following its publishing some blogs on the website of Vodafone.

Loose comparisons with the anti censorship campaigner, anonymous which had shut down the website of mastercard in December following the withdrawal of payment services by it to Wikileaks, were prompted by the action.

A denial of service invasion on the website of mastercard was launched by anonymous that had rendered it unuseable.

However UK uncut said that it had acquired leaked passwords which allowed it to gain access to the website of Vodafone. A section of the website known as World of Difference that highlights how the firm provided funding to people that wished to do charitable work in the United Kingdom and overseas was penetrated by the organisation.

The website of Vodafone can be used by the participants to blog regarding their charitable work. It was revealed by UK uncut that the passwords had been leaked by some of those since they were angry at the tax avoidence practices of the company.