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Did Hacktivist Group Anonymous Take Down Minneapolis PD Website?

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By Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The internet was abuzz late Saturday night with speculation that Anonymous — the decentralized hacker collective — had successfully disabled the Minneapolis Police Department website, in retaliation for the murder of George Floyd.

The Minneapolis PD site, as well as the City of Minneapolis’ site, became inaccessible later Saturday, according to multiple user reports.

Early Sunday, the sites were still experiencing accessibility issues, sporadically requiring visitors to enter “captchas” verifying they weren’t bots in a front end provided by Cloudflare — a signal the sites were experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, designed to render an internet service unusable by flooding it with

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