Lizard Squad made the announcement of the DDoS attack on Twitter.

It had no comment on the attribution of the attack.

The NCA website is an attractive target.

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Attacks on it are a fact of life, a spokesperson said over email to Forbes.

DDOS is a blunt form of attack which takes volume and not skill.

It isnt a security breach, and it doesnt affect our operational capability.

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At worst it is a temporary inconvenience to users of our website.

We think thats proportionate.

At the time of writing this article, the NCA website was still down.

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source: www.techworm.net