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Hacker Group Targets CIA Website

HeadlineJun 16, 2011

An online hacker group is claiming responsibility for briefly taking down the CIA’s website. On Wednesday, the group LulzSec announced it had jammed the CIA homepage for about two hours. LulzSec has claimed responsibility for hacks on websites targeting PBS, Sony, the U.S. Senate, and the Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, a partnership between the FBI and the private sector that shares sensitive national security information.

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