Hackers target crime agency website

Hackers have targeted the website of the National Crime Agency in an apparent revenge attack.

The site was inaccessible yesterday morning and a Twitter account linked to the hacking collective known as Lizard Squad appeared to claim responsibility.

It is thought the website was taken down in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which web servers or websites are flooded with massive amounts of data — leaving them inaccessible to visitors.