Toronto Police Service website down after DDoS attack

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http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/11/24/toronto_police_service_website_down_after_ddos_attack.html

By Nick Westoll
Staff Reporter
Nov 24 2014

The Toronto Police Service website went down on Sunday evening after a 
Twitter user threatened to hack it.

According to police, the site was the subject of a Distributed Denial of 
Service (DDoS) attack.

Twitter user @AerithTOR claimed responsibility for the attack on the 
social networking site.

A DDoS attack floods a website with several requests and if the website’s 
server cannot handle the volume of requests, the website crashes.

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