Mr Cellan-Jones tweeted a message he received from NWH on the DDoS which said: “It was only a test, we didn’t exactly plan to take it down for multiple hours”.
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The BBC website has been hit by hackers who claim they launched the cyber attack in an attempt to thwart potential online propaganda from Islamic State.
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A group of hackers that call themselves “New World Hacking” has taken credit for the major DDoS attack that knocked the BBC offline for a few hours on New Year’s Eve.
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The cyberattack that shut down BBC websites is being claimed by a group that says it’s trying to fight ISIS.
NWH claimed it targeted the BBC to test the power of its own servers.
The problems on the BBC sites began at about 07:00 GMT on Thursday, and meant visitors saw an error message instead of the intended content.
According to a group member named Ownz, New World Hacking came together in 2012 and consists of 12 people- eight males and four females.
BBC had attributed the outage to a “technical issue” but later clarified that it had indeed suffered distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
“We’re aware of a technical issue affecting the BBC website and are working to fix this now”, the BBC tweeted at the start of the outage.
In a message to a BBC technology correspondent, the group said it’s based in the USA and strives to “take down ISIS affiliated websites”.
The New World Hacking group is a self-proclaimed hacktivist group that supports Anonymous.
A press representative from the BBC told British newspaper The Independent that it could not confirm the source of the attack, despite the claim of responsibility from New World Hacking.
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At midday on Thursday, the BBC said its websites were now “operating normally”, and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
