Anonymous hackers block the website of the Spanish police

Another attack hit the website of the Spanish police having successfully blocked the access to it for over an hour, as reported by the newspaper El Mundo. The attack is believed to be organized by the hackers’ group Anonymous.

The group warned the police earlier that it planned to disable the website at some time Saturday. The website was down for at least an hour from 2130 GMT.

Three suspected members of the group were arrested by the Spanish police on charges of cyber attacks against targets including the websites of Sony Corp, governments, businesses and banks.

On Sunday, a spokesman for the police said access to the website www.policia.es had been blocked at 2 a.m. Sunday, but that the cause had not yet been established.

In a statement cited in a later article in El Mundo, Anonymous denied that the three arrested suspects were a 'core group', as stated by the police.