Hackers hit Swedish police website
{{date|June 2, 2006}}

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Hackers have brought the [[w:Swedish Police Service|Swedish Police Service]]'s website down. It is suspected this might be retaliation for [[The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån raided|the raid on The Pirate Bay]] on May 31.

The police's website went down on late June 1, after a [[wikipedia:Denial of Service|Denial of Service attack]] sent large amounts of traffic to the site, causing it to crash.

Police spokesmen Lars Lindahl said today that a link with The Pirate Bay "''is quite possible, but that is only speculation''." He added that a criminal investigation has started.

It was later revealed a 17-year-old student, who claims “it only took 10 minutes”, carried out the attack that kept the site down for almost a day.

== Related news ==
*{{wikinews|title=The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån raided|date=May 31, 2006}}
*{{wikinews|title=US accused of sinking The Pirate Bay|date=June 2, 2006}}
*{{wikinews|title=The Pirate Bay back online|date=June 3, 2006}}

== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&Date=20060602&ID=5760068
|title=Swedish Police Web Site Attacked
|author=Associated Press
|pub=MSN Money
|date=June 2, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5041848.stm
|author=
|title=Hackers hit Swedish police site
|pub=BBC
|date=June 2, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,835847,00.html
|author=
|title=Piraterna: Nu börjar kriget
|pub=Aftonbladet
|date=June 3, 2006}}

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Hackers have brought the Swedish Police Service's website down. It is suspected this might be retaliation for the raid on The Pirate Bay on May 31.

The police's website went down on late June 1, after a Denial of Service attack sent large amounts of traffic to the site, causing it to crash.

Police spokesmen Lars Lindahl said today that a link with The Pirate Bay "is quite possible, but that is only speculation." He added that a criminal investigation has started.

It was later revealed a 17-year-old student, who claims “it only took 10 minutes”, carried out the attack that kept the site down for almost a day.
Crime and law Sweden Internet P2P The Pirate Bay