Pro-Russia hackers claim responsibility for crashing British royal family's website
Pro-Russia hackers have claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that crashed the British royal family's website over the weekend. LONDON -- Pro-Russia hackers have claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that crashed the British royal family's website over the weekend. The website, royal.uk, went down for over an hour on Sunday morning due to a denial-of-service attack, a tactic for overwhelming a machine or network to make it unavailable, a royal source told ABC News. The source said the website was not hacked because no access was gained to systems or content. It was unclear who was responsible fort the denial-of-service attack, according to the source. MORE: Who's who in the British royal family There was no official comment on the matter from Buckingham Palace. A pro-Russia hacktivist group that calls itself Killnet claimed to be behind what it described as an "attack on paedophiles," apparently referring to Britain's Prince Andrew, Duke of York...