Sunday 8 April 2012

#OpTrialAtHome : Anonymous Hackers take down UK Government sites

Anonymous hactivist group hacked multiple government sites by launching DDOS(Distributed Denial of service) to protest government policies, the websites are inaccessible at about 21:00 BST on Saturday.

Hacker take down the Home office(homeoffice.gov.uk), The Prime Minister's Number 10(number10.gov.uk) and the Ministry of Justice(justice.gov.uk), as part of the operation called "#OpTrialAtHome"


"#OpTrialAtHome, because selling your citizens to foreigner is not acceptable!" One of Tweet claimed the reason for the attack.

"#OpTrialAtHome is offered in protest of the potential extradition of Gary McKinnon, Christopher Harold Tappin & Richard O'Dwyer. #Anonymous"Another Tweet reads.

At the time of writing,all sites are recovered from DDOS attack and back to online.

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