Anonymous Targets the CIA Security Clearance Blogs
Websites affiliated with the CIA and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, a state official and a well-known hacking group reported.
On an affiliated Twitter page and Tumblr feed, the hacking group known as Anonymous claimed Friday that it had taken down the Central Intelligence Agency’s website.
The posting read: “CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous.”
Numerous outside reports indicated the CIA’s website was down, and CNN’s attempts late Friday afternoon to get into the site failed.
Asked about the outage on the agency’s public website, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said, “We are looking into these reports.”
Additionally, information was “compromised” in a hacking of Alabama state websites, the Alabama Department of Homeland Security said in a news release.