Hackers cracked, the CIA site down a few hours

WASHINGTON - The official website of the intelligence agency CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) located at cia.gov, had broken down some time due to hackers. The culprit is a group of hackers calling themselves LulzSec.

Previously, this group also attacked several U.S. government offices like the Senate and the FBI. Quoted from Digitaltrends, Thursday (16/06/2011), the site was attacked by the CIA using DDoS Attack. While some time ago the Chicago FBI's website and the Senate was attacked with a DOS phone method.

"Tango down-CIA.Gov-for the lulz," the group said in its official Twitter account, at 6 pm local time. But this time the site was accessible again.

After that, the group also sent a tweet that essentially refers to the site admin CIA, about the vulnerability of their infrastructure since 2011.

In recent weeks, claiming that the U.S. Senate LulzSec very often attack the servers owned by the American government. According to them, the group aims to steal data. However, the Senate claimed no sensitive data to the public that is picked up.