Twitter account holder in Lithuania claims responsibility for apparent denial of service attack that disabled force’s website

The website of the Greater Manchester police website has been taken down by what appears to be a denial of service (DOS) attack, with a Twitter account in Lithuania claiming responsibility.
Users were unable to access the site www.gmp.police.uk from around 8pm, but the force restored it shortly afterwards. A tweet from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said that there had been some “technical issues” that had now been resolved.

However, a short time later, the website went down again. An anonymous Twitter account-holder called @n0w1337 tweeted the force, claiming they had taken the site down and demanding that GMP acknowledge it was an attack rather than an IT failure.