Hackers strike UK National Crime Agency
Cyber criminals forced the shutdown of the British National Crime Agency’s Web site on Tuesday morning, apparently as revenge for the arrest of six teenage hackers last week.
An agency spokesperson told The Guardian that the brief hack was “at worst ... a temporary inconvenience” to users, not a security breach.
The NCA is a national agency responsible for combating organized crime and cybercrime. The hackers used a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the NCA. DDoS attacks prompt Web sites to shut down by overloading them with fake traffic.
An agency spokesperson told The Guardian that the brief hack was “at worst ... a temporary inconvenience” to users, not a security breach.
The NCA is a national agency responsible for combating organized crime and cybercrime. The hackers used a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the NCA. DDoS attacks prompt Web sites to shut down by overloading them with fake traffic.
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