UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website taken offline after DDoS attack. It was the victim of a scam known as distributed denial of service (DDOS) whereby an internet address is flooded with bogus traffic, effectively making it unreachable. It is the second time in a year that the website has fallen victim to hackers. SOCA was the first target of the AntiSec campaign launched back in June by Anonymous and LulzSec. A Twitter news feed claims links to the Anonymous hacking collective publicised the DDoS on Thursday, but did not claim responsibility.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/05/uks-serious-organised-crime-agencys.html