[NEWS] CIA website HACKED : Anonymous hackers suspected

[3.5G]

Hackers claiming affiliation with Anonymous are taking credit for taking down the CIA's public site, exposing personal data from Alabama court records and pilfering e-mails from the Mexican mining agency, according to news reports. Other hackers hit the United Nations' site.

The CIA main site (cia.gov) is unavailable and apparently has been down for several hours as the result of a distributed-denial-of-service attack. A spokesman told CNN the agency was "looking into these reports." There's no indication hackers penetrated CIA computers or accessed sensitive information.

Source : cnn, usatoday ...etc

 

[lkdood]

CIA public web site is working

Slow because of the high traffic

https://www.cia.gov/

 

[3.5G]

yea now its working bt before 10 hrs it was hacked !

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/anonymous-cia/1?csp=34news

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/10/us/government-websites-hacked/index.html

 

[lkdood]

yea now its working bt before 10 hrs it was hacked !

DOS attack

traffic wadi unama server off kara CIA

 

[3.5G]

yea ths ryt DDOS

 

[Epic Madness]

CIA public web site is working

Slow because of the high traffic

https://www.cia.gov/

It has never been slow because of high traffics. I am a regular fan of CIA World factbook section and I have been also noticing the slow response time. it's probably distributed-denial-of-service attack. DDS attack does send high number of request to a particular server and make it unavailable for other people.
it seems the reason to slow response time is DDS attack still on going or they use high security measurement to check each request carefully before resolving it.