Anonymous attacks CIA and others
‘Hacktivist’ collective, Anonymous, have taken down the CIA’s website in what appears to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack over the weekend.
This latest attack follows hack attempts by Anonymous against the FBI last week. A CIA representative noted that “We are aware of the problems accessing our Web site, and are working to resolve them.” Access to the website was restored on Saturday.
The group also claims to have targeted police and government servers in Alabama, where it claimed to have stolen private information on 46,000 Alabama residents.
Addressing the residents, Anonymous stated that “because of your police being lazy when it comes to data security,” the group had gained access to names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, criminal records, and license plate numbers stored on the government database.
Finally, the group took down the websites for the Mexican Senate and Interior Ministry, as well as exposing email addresses from the Mexican Mining Chamber.
Read the full story at: Cnet.
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