Overseas Network, October 1st. According to a comprehensive report from Reuters and the British "Independent", on the morning of September 30, local time, the website of the British MI5 (MI5) was attacked by hackers, and then the website was temporarily closed.
According to reports, the MI5 website was attacked by a distributed denial of service (DDoS), and then its page displayed the words "website maintenance" and returned to normal within about an hour.
One source said the attack did not affect MI5's work and that no sensitive information was accessed.
MI5 is responsible for the UK's internal intelligence work and is the UK's national security agency. It is the three major UK intelligence agencies together with the foreign intelligence agencies MI6 (MI6) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
(Liu Qiang from Overseas Network)