Hackers target crime agency website

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

Hackers target crime agency website

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.

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