Anonymous Indonesia hacker claims to have shut down RBA, AFP websites

A member of hacking group Anonymous Indonesia has claimed responsibility for cyber attacks on the websites of the Australian Federal Police and the Reserve Bank.

 

The AFP and the Reserve Bank have confirmed their sites were attacked overnight, though both say the hacker did not gain access to any sensitive information.
The attack comes amid a diplomatic row between Australia and Indonesia, sparked by revelations spies tried to tap the phones of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and inner circle.
The AFP website was still down about 10.30am AEDT but is now running again, and Commissioner Tony Negus says the agency is investigating the attack.
"We have had an attack on the open source website, not connected to secret networks, but there has been an attempt on our website this morning which is being dealt with," he told reporters.
"I am not sure who is the perpetrator but we are investigating that."
An AFP spokesperson had earlier told the ABC the agency takes any attack "very seriously" and warned hacking is a criminal activity, not "harmless fun".


"All information on the AFP website is publically available. No sensitive information is hosted on the AFP website," the spokesperson added.
The Reserve Bank has also confirmed its website was "the subject of a denial of service attack" about 2.00am.
"There has been no outage, but the bank's website may have been slow for some users," a spokesman said.
The spokesman says protective measures were "effectively deployed" and that the bank's systems remain secure.
The hacker used a series of Twitter posts to claim the sites were successfully shut down, adding: "I'm ready for this war."

 Anonymous Indonesia has previously claimed to have hacked more than 150 Australian sites to protest against allegations that Australia used its Jakarta embassy as a spy base.