Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous reacted against UK’s extradition policies by infiltrating the UK Home Office website.
The attack comes under the “Op Trial At Home banner, #optrialathome on Twitter, supports anti-extradition protests for Chris Tappin, Richard O’Dwyer and Gary McKinnon and was announced by a Twitter account called @AnonopUK.”
The attackers used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tactic to disrupt the web site of the Home Office and during the evening it was showing a page unavailable message with some basic contact information.
Here are some tweets in response to the attack:
@anonops_live
AnonSec#anonymous #ddos #anonops : Anonymous attacks UK Prime Minister and Home Office website… http://t.co/PZrpdqI2, see more http://t.co/rpUv7gwg
1 day ago via The Tweeted Times Mobile · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
@AnonOpUK
AnonOpUK#Anonymous often acts as a voice of those who can’t speak out themselves. April is #ChildAbuseAwareness month, let’s help it trend. 2 days ago via web · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
@AnonUK
Anonymous UKHome Office get credit for one thing – their spokesman has recognised that the #Anonymous DDoS is a form of “online protest”. #OpTrialAtHome 2 days ago via web · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
@mymediafolio
M. Y.Anonymous takes down UK Home Office website – no wonder, invasion of privacy and huge waste of taxpayer dollars: http://t.co/IoseDele 2 days ago via Tweet Button · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
@spyblog
Spy BlogThe Home Office website http://t.co/4jVxDV4I comes back online after the #Anonymous DDoS attacks and the very slow “cyber defence” response 2 days ago via web · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
@FLYAGARIC2019
STEVEN ‘Fly’ PRATT Hack the home office every saturday after the Vatican, CIA and Chinese Gov. fitting targets though…expect em’.. http://t.co/Odo5JlBK 2 days ago via Tweet Button · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
@tomilo
Tom KingThese are the people who want to have access to the details of all our emails, calls, texts and tweets… http://t.co/qH4C1zfT 2 days ago via Tweet Button · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
Anonymous plans to attack GCHQ, the government’s spy agency, on April 14th in an effort to support online privacy.