Lulzsec claims responsibility for CIA website outage

Stuart Sumner
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Hacking group states it attacked CIA website for fun

Hacking group Lulzsec has claimed responsibility for a recent outage of the CIA website. Late on Wednesday evening, at the time of the outage, the group wrote on its Twitter feed: "Tango down – ...

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