The website for America's National Security Agency has gone down, fuelling speculation that it might have been attacked by hackers.
The public-facing site for the intelligence agency, which has been under fire after whistleblower Edward Snowden released secret documents about it, suddenly went down on Friday afternoon - and is still unavailable.
Several Twitter accounts that purportedly belong to people loosely associated with the hacking movement Anonymous have suggested they are responsible, but the claims are unverified.
An NSA spokesperson denied the claims, saying they were "not true."
"NSA.gov was not accessible for several hours tonight because of an internal error that occurred during a scheduled update. The issue will be resolved this evening," the spokesperson said.
"Claims that the outage was caused by a distributed denial of service attack are not true."
Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy implied that a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack - a method of over-loading a website with too much traffic - may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA.
Other Anonymous-affiliated accounts referred to the website crash.
Tweets from AnonyOps read: "Aww don't panic about http://nsa.gov being down. They have a backup copy of the internet.
"The #NSA is lawless and believes rules don't apply to them. Time for a total reboot."
An0nPun1shm3nt wrote: "Dear National Security Agency #NSA, Lesson #1 : If you spy on us, we are coming for you!"
The outage comes a day after former NSA director Michael Hayden was overheard speaking in an off-the-record conversation with a journalist, allegedly criticising the Obama administration over recent revelations leaked by Mr Snowden that the NSA had monitored the phone calls of at least 35 world leaders.
But Mr Hayden later told the Washington Post that he had not been disparaging about Mr Obama or his administration.
He said: "I didn't criticise the President. I actually said these are very difficult issues. I said I had political guidance, too, that limited the things that I did when I was director of the NSA. Now that political guidance (for current officials) is going to be more robust. It wasn't a criticism."
Meanwhile, a rally to protest the NSA's surveillance programmes is due to take place in Washington DC later today.
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