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[ PRIVACY Forum ] One person claiming credit for massive Go Daddy
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Mon Sep 10 16:14:16 2012
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One person claiming credit for massive Go Daddy outage
http://j.mp/S4wEcc (Atlantic Wire)
If the website you're trying to access won't load, chances are it's a
GoDaddy joint that's been taken offline in a massive hack for which
one person is claiming responsibility. The domain registrar
acknowledged in a tweet that it was offline on Monday, and The Next
Web reported the site's DNS servers had been disabled as well, "which
means GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, and lots more."
GoDaddy hosted more than 45 million domain names as of 2010, according
to DomainSherpa. Someone tweeting with the handle @AnonymousOwn3r
claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday, saying in a tweet
that he or she had taken down GoDaddy's servers "bacause well i'd like
to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i can
not talk now."
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