Wednesday, 12 September 2012

GoDaddy Outage: Anonymous Attack Or IT Failure?

A supporter of Anonymous, the loose hacking collective, claimed responsibility for an attack that apparently brought down Web sites hosted by Go Daddy. The company's site was down Monday afternoon, as were many of the

GoDaddy's interim CEO denied in a blog post on Tuesday that Monday's lengthy service outage was the result of a hack.

Yesterday popular hosting provider GoDaddy suffered a major, multi-hour outage that the company claims was due to an internal network error (and not a DDoS attack by a member of Anonymous). GoDaddy reportedly

Topping tech headlines on Monday, Internet registrar GoDaddy was knocked off the grid, reportedly thanks to a member of hacker group Anonymous. Service was later restored and GoDaddy insisted that no customer data was compromised, but the outage

was working “feverishly” to resolve its issues as soon as possible. Around that time, a Twitter account called @AnonymousOwn3r claimed responsibility, tweeting “#tangodown godaddy.com.” GoDaddy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


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