AN anonymous hacker's claims of taking down Cheshire Police's website have been dismissed by the force.
The mysterious figure, who is only known as Grey, said he carried out a distributed denial of service (DDoS) on Cheshire Police's site on March 3.
A DDoS is described as an attempt to make a server or network unavailable to users.
It is believed that it is usually done by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of a host connected to the internet.
The hacker, who operates from within Cheshire, said 'there will be more action in the future'.
Cheshire Police confirmed it did pick up on tweets from the hacker's @WANorLAN Twitter handle informing them of the threat.
A spokesman said: "Cheshire Police became aware of claims of a DDoS attack on its website earlier this month.
"Enquiries were made with the website provider, who confirmed no such attack had taken place."
Grey has previously claimed to have carried out a DDoS on Network Warrington’s website.
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