Mathew J. Schwartz
Information Week
June 16, 2011

The hacking group LulzSec, aka the Lulz Boat, on Wednesday claimed to have rendered the CIA’s public website inaccessible.

“Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz,” said a tweet on the LulzSec Twitter feed. (“Tango down” is a phrase from the Tom Clancy videogame Rainbow Six, uttered after an enemy’s been killed.) For at least part of the day, the CIA website couldn’t be reached, or was only sporadically accessible. Some Internet watchers said the site could have been unreachable simply because LulzSec tweets led so many people to try and access the site at once, leading to its becoming slashdotted.

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But LulzSec claimed to have used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. “People are saying our CIA attack was the biggest yet, but it was really a very simple packet flood,” said a LulzSec tweet.

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