Britain says nothing has changed in its commitment toextradite Assange to Sweden to face allegations of sexual offences.
Assange, who was granted diplomatic asylum by Ecuador lastweek, addressed his supporters on Sunday and continues to function from itsembassy here.
Anonymous, the computer hacking group, is reported to havehacked into the websites of 10 Downing Street, Home Office and the Ministry ofJustice yesterday.
However, the websites were working as normal today.
The Ministry of Justice said in a statement: "TheMinistry of Justice website was the subject of an online attack last night ataround 20:00 BST. This is a public information website and no sensitive data isheld on it. No other Ministry of Justice systems have been affected".
It added: "Measures put in place to keep the websiterunning mean that some visitors may be unable to access the siteintermittently. We will continue to monitor the situation and will takemeasures accordingly."
According to the BBC, Anonymous, a loose collection ofcomputer hackers, has gained notoriety by launching denial- of-service attacks,which flood websites with requests, causing them to operate more slowly orfail, on international government and corporate websites since 2010.
Meanwhile, speaking on state television, Ecuador presidentRafael Correa has said that if Britain entered his country's embassy in Londonto arrest Assange, it would be "suicidal".
He said such a course of action would be "suicide forGreat Britain because then people could enter their diplomatic premises allaround the world and they wouldn't be able to say a thing".
