Salford and Tameside authorities in Greater Manchester were both down for much of yesterday after the group called Noname05716 allegedly targeted them with a distributed denial-of-service attack.
During such crimes, hackers bombard websites with traffic, causing them to crash or slow dramatically.
The pro-Kremlin group, which was formed in 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, also claimed on X to have taken down Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Bury, Trafford and Dudley's websites. However, when they were tested by the Daily Express, only Hemel Hempstead's had crashed.
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