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Anonymous hackers attack data protection watchdog’s site

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   Tariq Tahir for MetroTuesday 15 May 2012 6:56 pm

   Hackers have blocked access to the website of the data protection
   watchdog, it has been revealed.
   Anonymous hackers attack data protection watchdog’s site
   Anonymous hackers are being blamed for the attack

   Members of the Anonymous group are being blamed for the attack on the
   Information Commissioner’s Office site, which has restricted its online
   service for several days.

   An ICO spokesman said: ‘Access to the ICO website has been disrupted
   over the past few days.

   ‘We believe this is due to a distributed denial of service attack.

   ‘The website itself has not been damaged, but people have been unable
   to access it. We provide a public-facing website which contains no
   sensitive  information.’

   The website of the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics also suffered
   access problems but a spokesman said they did not appear to have been
   caused by hacking but by a problem with the internal server.

   Anonymous first emerged as supporters of the whistle-blowing website
   WikiLeaks after it released embarrassing US diplomatic cables.

   It has carried on its activities against organisations it sees as
   censoring the internet.

   Earlier this month, Virgin Media was put offline by hackers claiming to
   be from Anonymous in response to its blocking of file-sharing website
   The  Pirate Bay.

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