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Anonymous Own3r: I May Have To Bring Down GoDaddy “Again”

The GoDaddy saga continues… To recap, on Monday, the company experienced a major outage. Many sites were down as a result. For hours, the company would not give any details about what happened, ...
Anonymous Own3r: I May Have To Bring Down GoDaddy “Again”
Written by Chris Crum
  • The GoDaddy saga continues…

    To recap, on Monday, the company experienced a major outage. Many sites were down as a result. For hours, the company would not give any details about what happened, other than to basically say it was aware of the problem and was working on it. A member of Anonymous going by the handle Anonymous Own3r took credit for an attack on GoDaddy resulting in this outage. Today, GoDaddy put out a statement saying that service has been fully restored, and that it was not a hack nor the result of any external influence. Just some internal issues.

    Here’s what Anonymous Own3r had to say about that:

    “I think I will have to bring down godaddy.com again, so this way they would admit instead of hiding the attack,” Anonymous Own3r said in a later tweet, before retweeting this one:

    It will certainly be interesting to see what happens from here.

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