A supporter of Anonymous, the loose confederation of rogue hackers, claimed responsibility on Monday for an attack that brought down GoDaddy, a Web hosting service, and its customers.
GoDaddy’s site was out for several hours Monday afternoon, as were many of the Web sites belonging to its 10.5 million customers, like the fantasy sports site Draftday and eBaum’s World, a humor site.
“We’re aware of the issues affecting our site,” Elizabeth Driscoll, a GoDaddy spokeswoman, said. “We’re still working to figure out what happened and determine the number of Web sites impacted.”
The person behind the Twitter account @AnonymousOwn3r took responsibility for the attack and said all of GoDaddy’s servers were knocked out with what is known as a distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS attack, in which a site is flooded with traffic until it collapses under the load.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/member-of-anonymous-takes-credit-for-godaddy-attack/
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