The Justice Department’s website is back online following a several-hour shut down by hackers angered by the deparment’s seizure of file sharing site Megaupload and arrests of seven people in connection with the piracy investigation.
The anonymous hackers blocked access to the websites of the Justice Department, FBI, Copyright Office, Motion Picture Association, Recording Industry Association and several others on Thursday, according to a report by CNN. The sites were inaccessible for several hours Thursday, prompting the Justice Department to issue a statement.
The site was “experiencing a significant increase in activity, resulting in a degradation in service. The Department is working to ensure the website is available while we investigate the origins of this activity, which is being treated as malicious act until we can fully identify the root cause of the disruption.”
Justice.gov crashed Thursday afternoon and remained down until at least 11 p.m., when Main Justice last checked it. The site was functioning normally again today.
The department announced the Megaupload indictment Thursday, calling the investigation one of the largest criminal copyright cases on record.
hell yea! GO ANONYMOUS!!! i really hope they can pull it off..since it’s all BS…SOPA/PIPA were junk + MU arrest was unfair + I don’t think swizz he has any legal connections to MU…imo it was all fabbed up to get other celebrity endorsements.
p.s. looks like someone is pissed – FBI vs ANONYMOUS video:
http://www.peeje.com/anonymous-hackers-we-legion-211/