The hacker organisation Lulz Security has claimed it has brought down the public-facing website of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
The purported assault on CIA.gov occurred on the same day the organisation non-stop a write solicit line so its fans could indicate future targets.
On its Twitter feed , the organisation wrote: "Tango down - cia.gov - is to lulz".
The CIA website was unapproachable at times on Wednesday but appeared to be back up on Thursday.
LulzSec's affirm could not right away be verified.
It was misleading if the outage was due to the group's efforts or to the considerable number of internet users perplexing to examine the site.
LulzSec has risen to inflection in new months by aggressive Sony, Nintendo, a few US broadcasters, and the public-facing site of the US Senate.
On Wednesday it claimed to have launched rejection of service attacks on a few websites as a outcome of gap its "request line", nonetheless it gave no details.
The affirm concerning the CIA.gov website emerged a few hours later. A CIA orator told the Associated Press the agency was "looking into" the report.
LulzSec publicised the sum of its write hotline on its Twitter feed.
Callers to the US number are met with a available message, in a complicated French accent, by an particular mission himself Pierre Dubois.
While the 614 area ethics appears to describe to the state of Ohio, it is doubtful that this is its actual location.
Lulz Security mentioned it had used distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against 8 sites referred to by callers.
It moreover claimed to have strike the websites of gaming publication The Escapist, and multiplayer games EVE Online and League of Legends.
DDoS attacks typically engage crashing a website by inundating it with requests from computers beneath the attacker's control.
Little is well known about Lulz Security, other than their strong "hacktivist" motivation.
The organisations and companies that it targets are frequently portrayed as having acted against the interests of adults or consumers.
Its high-profile assault on SonyPictures.com unprotected the company's continuing incapacity to secure users' personal data, LulzSec claimed.
Along with Anonymous, LulzSec has lifted the form of hacker groups as a future hazard to online services.
Hacktivists see their purpose as entertainment current protests in the many high form way possible, according to Peter Wood, owner of safety consultancy First Base.
"The things they are exploiting at the short time are the arrange of mistakes that organisations appear to have been creation ever given they related to the internet.
"Finally there are some players out there who are using them as a means to protest. Whether everybody agrees with them is a not similar question."
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