Hacked police website is back up

The hacker claimed to be a teenager living in the USA

A police website which was brought down by a hacker who published a cartoon and Muslim prayer on its site is now back up and running.

All the pages on Bedfordshire Police's site were replaced last month by an animated man carrying a Tunisian flag.

And underneath there was a green symbol and a Muslim prayer written in Arabic.

Arfaoui Firas, whose website suggests he might be a 17-year-old computer programmer living in the USA, claimed to have hacked into the website.

He gave a website address on the hacked pages which directed viewers to a games and films sales organisation.