article_snippet: BBC BBC has denied claims hackers were responsible for BBC website going offline this afternoon just days after Anonymous threatened to attack the Corporation if Top Gear wasn't reinstated.
article_snippet: It came just days after the so-called 'hactivists' reportedly wrote an open letter stating It would use a digital weapon called a DDoS attack to bring down the site after Jeremy Clarkson suspension.
article_snippet: the Corporation denied hackers had anything to do with the Corporation, adding that this can happen when the Corporation experiences a high volume of traffic .
article_snippet: However, BBC BBC denied that hackers are involved in the incident and put the incident down to an internal system failure.
article_snippet: But upset hackers reportedly jumped to Clarkson's defence and set up #OpBringBackClarkson, saying 'You don't wanna p
article_snippet: BBC you are warned… DDOS cannons will fire if you don’t comply,' according to the Mirror.
highlights_snippet: But BBC denied 'hacktivists' were involved and said hacktivists' was internal issue .
  