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The website, nsa.gov, went down Friday afternoon, setting off speculation on Twitter that the site may have suffered a denial of service attack by hackers.
The hacker group Anonymous joked about the website going down in a tweet without saying if it had played any role. "Aw don't panic about nsa.gov being down. They have a backup copy of the internet," it said.
The loosely organized, international hacker collective has frequently clashed with US authorities over file-sharing as well as allowing banks to handle donations to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
The NSA has been at the center of a furor over its vast electronic surveillance operations, revealed in a series of leaks from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has obtained asylum in Russia.
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The hacker group Anonymous joked about the website going down in a tweet without saying if it had played any role. "Aw don't panic about nsa.gov being down. They have a backup copy of the internet," it said.
The loosely organized, international hacker collective has frequently clashed with US authorities over file-sharing as well as allowing banks to handle donations to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
The NSA has been at the center of a furor over its vast electronic surveillance operations, revealed in a series of leaks from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has obtained asylum in Russia.
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