Hacker group Anonymous forces Irish government sites offline over Internet privacy act

Departments of Finance and Justice targeted in attack

A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice said: "This was not an attempt to extract information from the website but was instead an attempt to stop the service.”

She added “There seems to be no damage done to the website. However, a review of the website is being conducted this morning.”

A spokesman for the Department of Finance said that IT staff were alerted to the hacking attempt by the “inordinate amount of traffic and data” arriving to the site, and as a “failsafe,” shut the site down.

"It wasn't a hacking-in that a hacker needs to get into the website,” said the Department of Finance spokesman. “We would suspect that somebody was trying to create some sort of mischief, but IT were alerted to the irregular flow of traffic and shut it down themselves."

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Nster.com