Anonymous hackers hit the CIA's website with DDOS attack.The attack took place roughly around 12:10pm pacific time on Friday, still the website is inaccessible . The twitter account YourAnonNews announced the attack in twitter with a link to Russian news story about the attack.
One of the twitter accounts affiliated with Anonymous explained the reasons of the attack: "We do it for the lulz," referring to the popular online abbreviation "for laughs."
This is not the first time Anonymous takes down cia.gov. In June, as part of a 51-day-long hacking spree, the Anonymous affiliated group LulzSec took down the CIA's site for a few hours. The reason was the same as today: "For the lulz."
