The Great Manchester Police website in the UK was subject to multiple attacks yesterday (2nd September), causing it to crash.

In an official statement, it said that its website, known as the Force, had been taken down twice in what is now thought to be a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

It reported that initial checks carried out found nothing “untoward” and it managed to bring the system back online again fairly swiftly.

However, its assessment proved to be flawed, as no sooner had they got the website back up, it was once again down.

Following the second incident, an individual on Twitter, going by the moniker Prince, tweeted Greater Manchester Police saying: “[sic] I think these problems responsible was me :)”

The individual, who claimed to be from Lithuania, went on to threaten the police force: ‘Disclose out there that I was the one who knocked your site…