The website of the National Crime Agency was targeted by the Lizard Squad hackers which left the site inaccessible for some time.
The websites or servers are flooded with requests for data and were attacked with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The attack disturbed the normal functioning of NCA.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-34116508
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/national-crime-agency
"id": "nat233920422",
"linkid": "national-crime-agency",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "09/2015",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Law Enforcement',
'name': 'National Crime Agency',
'type': 'Government Agency'}],
'attack_vector': 'Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)',
'description': 'The website of the National Crime Agency was targeted by the '
'Lizard Squad hackers which left the site inaccessible for '
'some time. The websites or servers were flooded with requests '
'for data and were attacked with a distributed denial of '
'service (DDoS) attack. The attack disturbed the normal '
'functioning of NCA.',
'impact': {'downtime': ['Some time'],
'operational_impact': ['Disturbed normal functioning'],
'systems_affected': ['NCA Website']},
'threat_actor': 'Lizard Squad',
'title': 'DDoS Attack on National Crime Agency Website',
'type': 'DDoS Attack'}