CryptoNote team has published official statement yesterday
https://cryptonote.org/news/archiveMoreover, the CryptoNote website has recently been exposed to illegal access by malicious users, which is absolutely unacceptable. Some data stored on cryptonote.org have been vandalized and is now temporary unavailable until the internal investigation is completed.
The "we got hacked" defense. Wow, that will totally work!
If not come up with a credible reason somebody would create a fraudulent whitepaper for the clearnet cryptonote website. I seriously would like to hear one, I can't think of one. I thought the "we were hacked" defense was bs too, but how else do you explain somebody going through the trouble of creating a fake whitepaper?