Malaysia has been hit by a wave of attacks after the "Anonymous" hacker group accused the government of Internet censorship.
More than 50 government websites were hit and 41 of them were closed, AFP said.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said in a statement the attacks on websites with the .gov.my domain started shortly before midnight Wednesday and lasted several hours.
Little damage was caused and these were denial of service attacks. Apparently most of the websites have already recovered.
Anonymous warned on a website that it would target the government portal www.Malaysia.gov.my on Wednesday. It was still down this morning.
It is the second attack that Anonymous has made on a Government website over this same subject. Anonymous sabotaged Turkish sites last week to protest against Internet censorship.
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