CIA website allegedly hacked by ‘Anonymous’
Stephen C. Webster | 10.02.2012 23:37 | Technology | World
The website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 
http://www.cia.gov/ appeared to be offline Friday afternoon, shortly after a Twitter account associated with the hacker group “Anonymous” announced that it had been taken down. https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousPress/status/168064051304341504
http://www.cia.gov/ appeared to be offline Friday afternoon, shortly after a Twitter account associated with the hacker group “Anonymous” announced that it had been taken down. https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousPress/status/168064051304341504
Reached for comment by Raw Story, a CIA public affairs officer had no comment, but did note that the agency was “experiencing some problems with the servers.” A press officer also had no comment, and said that the website being down was “news to me.” A third request for comment, filed with another press officer, went without any reply.
Russia Today was the first organization to report the alleged hack. http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-hacked-cia-hackers-049/
If hackers were indeed responsible for the website’s downtime Friday, it wouldn’t be the first instance: hackers with the now-dormant “Lulz Security” group said last June that they were responsible for taking down the CIA’s website, which is of little significance to agency operations. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/15/cyber-attacks-expose-network-weaknesses/
Russia Today was the first organization to report the alleged hack.
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-hacked-cia-hackers-049/ If hackers were indeed responsible for the website’s downtime Friday, it wouldn’t be the first instance: hackers with the now-dormant “Lulz Security” group said last June that they were responsible for taking down the CIA’s website, which is of little significance to agency operations.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/15/cyber-attacks-expose-network-weaknesses/
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