Hacktivist groups have successfully taken down the site, which was offline for several hours Friday evening.
According to NY TIMES The hacker group Anonymous Brasil has started a hacking campaign — Operation Hacking Cup, or #OpHackingCup — to protest poverty, corruption and police brutality.
Offline, activists have struggled to make their voices heard, but online, hackers have begun a series of distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks and have defaced websites.
In one tweet, the group claims to have started more than 100 attacks since the World Cup began. Their targets have included the Brazilian Intelligence System, Hyundai Brazil, the Brazilian Football Confederation, Brazil’s Justice Department, the Sao Paulo military police, Bank of Brazil and the Africa.com.br website.
This week, the group claimed to have hacked the internal servers of the Brazilian federal police. As proof, the group released a collection of user names and passwords and a link to the federal police’s internal log-in site, but the authenticity of the information could not be verified.
