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		</div><p>The BBC website has been hit by hackers who claim they launched the cyber attack in an attempt to thwart potential online propaganda from Islamic State.<br />
The attack on New Year’s Eve “took down the BBC iPlayer and other services for a few hours”, according to the BBC’s business correspondent Joe Lynam.</p>
<p>Lynam told BBC Breakfast that the corporation’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones had received a tweet from a group calling itself New World Hacking (NWH), claiming responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS). It bombarded the system with 600 gigabits per second of messages.</p>
<p>Lynam described it as “quite a serious claim to make” although the BBC “cannot verify or prove their claims”. NWH claimed it was testing the power of its own servers.</p>
<p>Lynam said: “Their ultimate goal, believe it or not, is not to attack the BBC but to go for Isis, the group which often calls itself Islamic State, and all their servers so they cannot spread propaganda from various different website.</p>
<p>“What this group does is to take down various different websites it believes to be criminal and leading to terrorist acts. It posts the website which has been taken down with the hashtag ‘tangodown’ or ‘takenddown’ deliberately by a distributed denial of service (DDoS), which is what hit the BBC two days ago.</p>
<p>“We have to stress we have no evidence but this group is claiming responsibility for this DDoS attack and they claim their ultimate goal is to take down Isis websites.”</p>
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