Hasta La Gadget!

GoDaddy recently underwent a crash which also took down millions of sites hosted by it. An Anonymous member, AnonymousOwn3r, claimed that he was responsible for the crash and that he accomplished it through a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. He also said that he launched the attack in his individual capacity, not representing Anonymous.

GoDaddy was quick to respond to this, stating that it was aware of the problem and was working actively to resolve it. The company was able to restore the services within 24 hours and stated that no customer data was compromised during the entire fiasco. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: GoDaddy restores service after hacking incident, GoDaddy Attacked, Millions Of Sites Down,

Earlier today, the Internet was abuzz about web hosting company GoDaddy being hacked by the hacker collective known as Anonymous, and in an announcement over on Twitter, GoDaddy mentioned that the majority of their customer-hosted sites are now up and running, stating, “Most customer hosted sites back online. We’re working out the last few kinks for our site & control centers. No customer data compromised.” That certainly sounds like a ray of light at the end of a long, dark tunnel, doesn’t it?

Anonymous Own3r claimed responsibility for today’s attack that actually affected numerous sites, where GoDaddy’s DNS servers were taken offline and the downtime clocked in at several hours. Not only that, Anonymous Own3r claims that this particular attack was just from a single member and not made on Anonymous’ behalf, making us wonder what happens when the collective flex their muscles.

GoDaddy spokeswoman Elizabeth Driscoll mentioned, “All services are restored and at no time was sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords, names, addresses, ever compromised.” Does that make you sleep easier at night if you hosted a site on GoDaddy?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: GoDaddy Attacked, Millions Of Sites Down, Arizona man gets 30-months in prison after infecting 72,000 computers,

Today is not a good for those working behind the scenes at GoDaddy. TechCruch is reporting that an Anonymous member has brought GoDaddy down and, by extension, has brought down many of the sites GoDaddy hosts. Apparently, the attack was carried out by someone going by the name of “AnonymousOwn3r” on Twitter, and he says that he worked alone in bringing the website hosting service down.

Of course, this is causing a headache for more than just the folks at GoDaddy, as many business owners are seeing their sites go down as a result of the attack as well. Since the attack makes a number GoDaddy’s DNS servers inaccessible, many site owners who were using GoDaddy’s DNS service were affected by this breach. Customers are also saying that the company’s email and phone services are down as well.

GoDaddy itself has had to deal with a number of angry customers this afternoon, and at the time of this writing, the hosting service is still down for many. GoDaddy seems to be making progress, with one of its most recent tweets claiming that service has returned for some customers. With tens of millions of sites down, however, GoDaddy has its work cut out for it.

What’s interesting is that AnonymousOwn3r did this whole thing by himself. He hasn’t really given a reason for his attack on GoDaddy, saying in a tweet that the breach was meant to test GoDaddy’s “cyber security,” among other reasons that he can’t talk about now. A lot of GoDaddy customers are understandably calling him out on Twitter, so let’s just hope that the company can get everything back to normal soon. Stay tuned, as we’ll have more details for you as this story develops.

Anonymous attack brings down tons of GoDaddy sites is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

Members of the well-known online hacktivist group, Anonymous, have attempted a number of high-profile cyber attacks in the recent past. It seems that the latest to go on the list of their victims is the popular web hosting giant, GoDaddy.

According to the reports that are beginning to trickle in, GoDaddy has been attacked by an Anonymous member who goes by the Twitter handle AnonymousOwn3r. As a result of the attack, millions of GoDaddy-hosted websites are reportedly down. This person says that this is not an attack sanctioned by Anonymous as a group. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Anonymous claims PSN breach, 10M accounts allegedly accessed, Apple’s leaked UDIDs: Blue Toad Publishing may be the real source,