The website for America’s Central Intelligence Agency was offline for several hours today, with hackers claiming credit for the attack.
'The CIA guards no doubt assumed we were terrorists'
The cia.gov site was unavailable around 3.50pm ET, allegedly due to a Denial of Service(DDS)-attack from hackers affiliated with the group UGNazi.
The site block was initially claimed by Anonymous after the group tweeted: "CIA TANGO DOWN", but later it admitted fellow hacktivists UGNazi had instead brought down the site.
By 6pm cia.gov was back up and running.
The CIA did not confirm the attack but said they were "looking into these reports".
Hacktivists also reportedly attacked the website for the United Nations.
During the attacks, personal data from court records in Alabama was reportedly “exposed” as well as emails from a Mexican mining company.
The stolen data was allegedly relating to 46,000 people who had taken part in a court amnesty for overdue traffic tickets and other fines.
It included home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and social security numbers, hackers claimed on social media site Twitter.
The group said the attack was in response to the state of Alabama’s "recent racist legislation in an attempt to punish immigrants as criminals", CNN said.
This is not the first time the CIA website has been attacked by hackers.
Last month the site went offline temporarily around the same time, 3pm on a Friday afternoon, with Anonymous claiming credit for the attack.
Anonymous hackers have also targeted the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
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