The websites of the Department of Justice and Finance suffered a DDOS attack by Anonymous last night. The attack was orchestrated through a number of twitter accounts affiliated with the Anonymous group. Messages from these accounts urged followers to engage in a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack on the justice.ie and finance.gov.ie websites.

The reasoning behind these recent attacks are in response to the governments plans to reform the Irish copyright law, which is said to be the “Irish SOPA”.

It is also understood that the website of Sean Sherlock, who has proposed the law reform, is to come under attack at some stage today. An Irish supporter of Anonymous can be seen below tweeting the website to the group, along with a recommendation to add the website state.ie to the list of targets, which he later realised was not a government affiliated website.