Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent
Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The CIA website stayed inaccessible hours after the first reports of the outage on Friday as an elusive group of hackers claimed responsibility in tweets.
“CIA TANGO DOWN” read an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account. According to defense pundits, the expression is military-speak for eliminating a hostile force.
Earlier media reports cited Anonymous taking credit for crashing the websites of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which was quickly revived, and the FBI.
With the CIA site still down, another tweet from Anonymous affiliated accounts noted the reasons of the attack: “We do it for the lulz,” referring to the popular online abbreviation “for laughs.”
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