Agitated Hackers Now Target Toronto Police, Ottawa Police Websites

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The Toronto Police Service website was found to be unavailable on Monday morning while a Twitter user, AerithXOR2, claimed responsibility for the attacks on several official sites over the weekend. According to a statement issued by police on Sunday, it confessed that the problem is caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which floods a site with more requests than the server can handle.

Additionally, the web pages of both the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa police were also unavailable on Monday since their hacking over the weekend. The Supreme Court of Canada’s site had also been down. Authorities have suspended the suspected Twitter account of the hacker(s), @AerithTOR, as of Monday morning. The group had also been using the Twitter account @AerithXOR, which has also been suspended. However, a new account, @AerithXOR2, was registered almost at the same time Monday that posted a statement claiming it took down the Ottawa and Toronto sites out of “retaliation” because “police have framed an innocent youth.”

When Ottawa’s police website hacked on Friday, it displayed a message containing name of an area police officer. The officer named is quite noticeably involved with the investigation of an Ottawa teen suspected of making calls reporting fake emergencies to emergency services agencies across North America. A previous online statement claimed connection between the hacks and the group Anonymous. The Twitter account suggested it had also targeted the Calgary police website.

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