Attacks resume against US Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice appears to be under attack for the second time since the popular Megaupload file sharing site was taken down. The group Anonymous appears to be carrying out this latest attack in protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
In its Mega Song music video, which was released last month, Megaupload claimed the site had 1 billion users and accounted for 4% of all traffic on the internet. www.megaupload.com was the 77th busiest site according to the Netcraft Toolbar. The company’s main website was hosted by Carpathia Hosting, but now displays an FBI anti-piracy warning hosted by Amazon. The warning explains, “This domain name associated with the website Megaupload.com has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court.” Despite the static nature of the warning page, it appears to have struggled with the amount of traffic it was receiving over the weekend:
