BBC Headquarters (Photo : Reuters/Peter Nicholls)
In the latest news about BBC site and its iStream player cyber attack problems, the anti-terrorist group called the New World Hacking has taken responsibility for the site's shutdown, claiming it was an online anti-terrorism threat. The group also said that shutting down BBC for a long period of time on New Year's Eve was unintentional.
According to a representative from the hacking group, the shutting down of BBC website, one of the premier news portals in UK and its iPlayer dedicated to online live streams was not pre-planned. Rather, it was using the BBC cyber attack to test its capacity for targeting terrorist groups and their followers.
The group claimed to have its origins in the U.S., where the recent Santa Benardino shooting killed members of an agency assisting the disabled and left several people injured. The FBI has said the mass shooting attack was linked to terrorism and was carried out by a husband-and-wife team thought to have allegiance to foreign terror groups.
A similar incident occurred in Paris weeks ahead of the California attack problem that President Barack Obama said was evidence that the number of mass shootings seem to be escalating in the U.S. The rise in legal gun use involved in mass shooting attacks has spurred a move toward gun control during election year by Republican candidates.
"We realize sometimes what we do is not always the right choice, but without cyber hackers...who is there to fight off online terrorists," said the New World Hackers, reported Westfield Times.
The BBC cyber attackers added, "The reason we really targeted [the] is because we wanted to see our actual server power."
According to one security analyst, security breaches are a definite certainty now. It is no longer a problem of if a cyber attack like the latest one to hit BBC news site will occur, but when it will happen, The Wrap reported.
