Anonymous hacker group has broken the website of the United States Department of Justice. The hackers informed about this in their Twitter profile. Later the department confirmed the information about the attack, Agence France-Presse reports.
The department informs that the server of the Bureau of Justice Statistics website, which is responsible for collecting and analyzing crimes as well as computer crimes, was broken.
Anonymous also informed that they robbed data of 1,7GB size, at the same time the correspondence of the staff members of the department. The group insists that their goal is to fight for freedom of speech and freedom of information. In their opinion, the robbed information reveals the state of corruption in the department. Media service of the department has not clarified yet the time of the crime and whether the hackers managed to get information or not, vz.ru reports.
Since 2010 Anonymous group is famous for its attacks on the websites of a number of organizations and governments.