The United Kingdom’s Police force is offline as hackers continue cyber attacks against UK and Ecuadorian government websites in protest of the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The site had been down for three and a half hours at time of publishing.

The hacking group Pryzraky has claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter.

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One of the hackers involved with the attack told The Gateway Pundit that they are hitting the site with 855,000 HTTP requests per second using 2,500 machines — to overload the servers and cause it to crash.

This latest attack comes a day after Patricio Real, Ecuador’s deputy minister for information and communication technologies, announced that his nation has been hit with 40 million cyber attacks since Assange’s arrest. Real said that the attacks are coming “principally come from the United States, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria and the United Kingdom,” as well as from his own nation.

As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, on Monday evening both the Supreme Court of the UK and the National Crime Agency websites were offline, along with 1,633 other UK websites hosted on the same server.