25th March 2015 By Cale Guthrie Weissman
State governments, beware: .gov websites are being targeted by a seemingly new hacker group.
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Last Monday the central internet portal controlling all of Maine’s government websites went down for about three hours, due to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. On Tuesday Maine.gov went down again, this time only for two hours.
A hacking group called Vikingdom2015 took credit for the attack on Twitter. Using the hashtag “#OpAmericanGov” the Twitter account claimed that both Maine.gov and VisitNH.gov were offline.
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Someone is attacking government websites, and a new anonymous hacking group is taking credit
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