Anonymous takes down CIA, MI6, and DOJ

Anons took the websites of American and British intelligence and law enforcement offline this weekend.

Lorraine Murphy

Updated on June 2 2021 6:30 pm CDT

It was a busy weekend for members of Anonymous around the globe. It was, presumably, an even busier weekend for system administrators in the CIA, the Department of Justice, and British spy service MI6, as they scrambled (unsuccessfully) to fight off distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks that took their websites offline.

As has become traditional, the boasting played out on Twitter.

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Lorraine Murphy

Lorraine Murphy is an Ottawa-based cybersecurity journalist and founding editor of the Cryptosphere. She has a keen interest in WikiLeaks and web culture, and her bylines have appeared in Salon, Vanity Fair, Serious Eats, and elsewhere.