CIA website reportedly crashed by Anonymous

The official website for the Central Intelligence Agency crashed on Friday afternoon, in an attack claimed by activist hackers group Anonymous.
 
The site was down for at least an hour Friday afternoon.

Anonymous took credit for the unresponsive website on a Twitter account affiliated with the group, tweeting: “CIA TANGO DOWN.” No immediate reason was given for the apparent denial of service attack, but a follow-up tweet reads, “Anonymous - We do it for the lulz.”

Last month, the hackers group claimed to have crashed the Justice Department website, saying it was done in retaliation for prosecutors shutting down the file-sharing site Megaupload.com.