GoDaddy hacker sends millions of websites offline

[EvadingGrid]

'Anonymous' hacking shuts down ALL websites hosted by GoDaddy including thousands of small businesses

    Web hosting giant hacked and all of the websites run through GoDaddy were shut down temporarily as a result of Monday's attack
    Service was eventually restored for the bulk of customers by 5:43pm


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2201336/Anonymous-hacking-shuts-ALL-websites-hosted-GoDaddy-including-thousands-small-businesses.html

Thousands and possibly millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com were down for several hours on Monday, causing trouble for the mainly small businesses that rely on the service.

A Twitter feed that claims to be affiliated with the 'Anonymous' hacker group says it was behind the outage, but this couldn't be confirmed by the Associated Press.

[EvadingGrid]

GoDaddy stopped by massive DDoS attack
Millions of sites may be affected – not by Anonymous, it appears

By Neil McAllister in San Francisco
10th September 2012
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/10/godaddy_ddos_attack/

A lone hacker has claimed responsibility for an ongoing denial-of-service attack that may have knocked out millions of websites hosted by world's largest domain registrar GoDaddy.

The attack began at around 10.00 Pacific time (17.00 GMT/18.00 BST) and appears to affect the registrar's DNS servers. Any site that is hosted with GoDaddy could be affected, although as of 13.00 Pacific (20.00GMT/21.00BST) the company reported that at least some service had been restored.

[EvadingGrid]

So mainstream media are saying its the 'infamous' hacker group anonymous, but others such as The Register state that it is not 'anonymous'

Opinions ?

[jofortruth]

GoDaddy attack likely a psyop to discredit Anonymous while pushing cyber security executive order
http://www.naturalnews.com/037141_Anonymous_GoDaddy_executive_order.html

[TahoeBlue]

http://domainincite.com/5803-go-daddy-confirms-xxx-pricing-will-host-porn-sites
Go Daddy confirms .xxx pricing, will host porn sites
Kevin Murphy, August 15, 2011
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That apparently includes Mike Berkens, who broke the news last week.
 
Go Daddy also confirmed that it will host .xxx porn sites, though only on its paid-for hosting accounts.
 
I’ve always been a little confused by Go Daddy’s hosting terms of service. By my reading, porn was outright banned. Apparently I was dead wrong.
 
The company’s general counsel, Christine Jones, said in a statement:

Go Daddy’s Web hosting agreement does not currently prohibit pornography, except in the case of ad-supported hosting. Those terms will continue for all TLDs, including .xxx, unless otherwise prohibited by our agreements with the various registry operators.
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