HACKERS aligned with the global
cyber-collective known as Anonymous have claimed responsibility for
taking down the websites of the US Department of Justice and Universal
Music Group in retaliation for charges levied earlier today by the
agency against content-sharing site Megaupload.com.
Both Universalmusic.com and Justice.gov crashed and remained down as of 6pm ET.
Earlier
today, the FBI shut down Megaupload.com and charged the site's founders
and five others with internet piracy crimes for running "an
international organized criminal...