The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible.
Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the matter, and implied that a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA.
i knew it ! Thats Suzy @TruthIzSexy
@stacyherbert Don’t quite understand how Anonymous claims responsibility for anything — do they like call a press conference??
You are aware that a denial of service attack is a cyber attack; That doesn’t mean the website was actually “hacked”, right?
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