Cyber Attack On Ministry Of Justice Website

The Ministry of Justice website was brought down for several hours by a cyber attack, the department has confirmed.

The site was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which creates a massive surge in traffic to the target's website overloading the system, during Tuesday night.

The Ministry of Justice said in a Twitter post: "Unfortunately the Justice website is down following a DDoS attack last night, we are working hard to bring it back online ASAP."

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