LulzSec hackers 'hit' UK crime agency Soca website
20 June 2011 Last updated at 16:29 GMT
Lulz Security's logo is a cartoon character called Pierre Dubois.
Hacking group Lulz Security claims to has taken offline the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime agency (Soca).
Www.soca.gov.uk was unavailable for a time on Monday afternoon and appeared to be working only intermittently by the evening.
With no immediate comment from Soca, LulzSec tweeted: "Tango down - in the name of #AntiSec".
The group has been responsible for a number of high-profile web attacks, hitting the CIA and US Senate.
Soca appeared to be the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where a number of computers, under malicious control, overload their target with web requests.
A later LulzSec twitter posting appeared to confirm that.
"DDoS is of course our least powerful and most abundant ammunition. Government hacking is taking place right now behind the scenes," it said.
Over the weekend, the shadowy group declared that it would begin targeting government systems, calling the campaign Antisec.
In an online posting, LulzSec set out its agenda: "Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including e-mail spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments."
Credit: BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)
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