Hackers target crime agency - Crime - UK - The Independent The Serious Organised Crime Agency website was taken offline yesterday after it was targeted by hackers. The "distributed denial of service" attack, which involves web addresses being hit by a flood of visits they are unable to cope with, was carried out on Wednesday night. Similar attacks in the past have been linked to the "hacktivist" group Anonymous. A spokesman for the agency said the attack did "not pose any security risk," but the website was temporarily taken offline "to limit the impact on other clients hosted by our service provider."