Reports are coming in that the official US CIA website was taken down and at the same time a break into the US Senate website.

Apparently no proprietary information was accessed, but it is reported that this was the second attack breach.

LULZ appears to be the group responsible for the attacks. These new breed of hackers, known as hacktivist Lulzsec claimed credit for this attack as well as the Sony breach which compromised countless user records and lasted in the site/network being offline/ down for maintenance for over a month.

Lulz wrote on twitter: “Tango Down – cia.gov for the lulz”

We are seeing  new tactics.  LulzSec has set up two phone lines —

614-LULZSEC

732-993-7703 — taking thousands of calls a day.

According to DailyTech:

Some are actually being answers, asking guests questions for prizes or regaling them in a faux French accents.  But it’s also redirect the calls to phone denial of service (DOS) attacks — something rarely seen today.

Today it direct this phone wrath at the online MMORPG World of Warcraft‘s customer support, the FBI’s Detroit headquarters, and “a certain hosting company” (many suspect it was GoDaddy).  Last, but not least it direct attacks at disgraced security firm HBGary who was the subject of much lashing at the hands of Anonymous earlier this year.”