Cyber-attack over UK's FBI organization Soca, website shut down

A spokesman said the site was taken offline at 22:30 on Wednesday, but that the attack did not "pose a security risk to the organisation".

The website of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has recently became the target of the internet cyber-attack, and therefor it has been taken offline. According to BBC Soca has confirmed that soca.gov.uk had suffered a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

A spokesman said the site was taken offline at 22:30 on Wednesday, but that the attack did not "pose a security risk to the organisation". Soca has recently shut down 36 websites believed to be selling stolen credit card information. Last month, Soca was part of a joint effort with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to shut websites associated with selling stolen financial information.

"We took action to limit the impact on other clients hosted by the [same] service provider," the spokesman said. "DDoS attacks are a temporary inconvenience to website visitors but do not pose a security risk. "Soca's website contains only publicly available information and does not provide access to operational material."

Soca would not confirm if it knew the source of the attack or the motive. British organization said 2.5 million items of compromised data were recovered, preventing a potential fraud estimated at £500m.

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