A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.
LulzSec today announced today that it had brought down SOCA.

"Tango down -- soca.gov.uk -- in the name of #AntiSec," the group said on its Twitter account Monday around noon ET.

LulzSec has claimed responsibility for a large number of recent database breaches and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, including against Sony and other gaming companies, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. Senate .

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