02-01-2016 14:58 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Anti-ISIS group claims cyber-attack on BBC, says was only a test

A group of computer hackers that wants to target Islamic State has claimed it was behind a cyber attack on the BBC which it intended as a test of its own capabilities, according to messages sent to a reporter at the broadcaster on Saturday. "It was only a test, we didn't exactly plan to take it down for multiple hours," the group called New World Hackers said in a message sent to the BBC's technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, which he posted on Twitter. "We realise sometimes what we do i
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