Hackers target Government websites

Hacking group Anonymous are believed to have been behind a cyber attack which shut down the justice and finance department’s websites in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was not an attempt to extract information from the website but instead aimed at halting access to the sites. Neither website is believed to have been damaged in the attack and both websites were back online within an hour.

A Twitter account in the name of Anonymous Sweden, claimed the attack was carried out in protest against planned internet piracy laws being formulated by the Government.