Japanese PM's website hacked by whaling protesters

Hacktivists claim to have crashed Shinzo Abe's website in protest at Japan's Antarctic mission to kill whales for 'research'

Hackers have claimed to have disabled the website of the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, in protest at his country's decision to resuming its whaling programme in the Southern ocean, in defiance of international opinion.

A tweet, purportedly from a member of the loose collective of hacktivists, Anonymous, and addressed to Abe's Twitter account, said: "Whaling is not cultural right! Your website is #TangoDown!"