Following a major outage on Monday, that took thousands of GoDaddy-hosted Web sites offline for most of the work day, GoDaddy has issued a statement saying the outage was not caused by any “external influences”.
A member of Anonymous, known as “AnonymousOwn3r”, claimed responsibility for the outage on Twitter, saying he was acting by himself and it was not the doing of Anonymous as a collective.
Other members of Anonymous condemned AnonymousOwn3r for his claims, saying: “We did not DDoS GoDaddy. That would be an epic failop. However, some nutbag took credit, so we're taking credit in his demise.”
GoDaddy's interim CEO, Scott Wagner, has since said: “It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial-of-service attack (DDoS). We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables.
Wagner says throughout GoDaddy's history as a domain registrar and Web host, it has provided 99.999% uptime in its DNS infrastructure.
“This is the level our customers expect from us and the level we expect of ourselves. We have let our customers down and we know it. We take our business and our customers' businesses very seriously. We apologise to our customers for these events and thank them for their patience.”
AnonymousOwn3r is sticking to his claims that he was responsible for the attack, and has tweeted: “I think I will have to bring down godaddy.com again, so this way they would admit instead of hiding the attack.”
Some people remain unconvinced by GoDaddy's explanation of the outage. Some comments on Twitter include:
“Sure sounds like GoDaddy got hacked. Especially when they say 'It wasn't a hack'.”
“Interesting that Go Daddy would rather be thought an incompetent network operator than vulnerable to DDOS.”
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