GoDaddy, the world’s largest Domain Registrar and a big provider of hosting sevices, went down for 6+ hours yesterday afternoon, taking all customer websites and email services down with it.
Today, the company’s CEO, Scott Wager, has posted a letter to customers on its website stating that the blackout was “not a ‘hack’ and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS).” Instead, the company says that the outage was due to “a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables”.
However, the anonymous hacker that claimed yesterday to have taken GoDaddy down is disputing these claims in new tweets:
While a far cry from yesterday’s outage, @anonymousown3r has claimed a new XSS hack that caused GoDaddy’s blog post to display an “unexpected error” and the message “Hacked by Own3r” along with their twitter url.
What do you think? Do you believe that the yesterday’s issue was an internal error or do you think GoDaddy was hacked? Does the “new hack” prove anything? Did the outage affect you?
09/11/2012 at 17:39
I wouldn’t believe go daddy
They are asking for it
George bush ” bring it on” style
09/12/2012 at 08:01
I’m more inclined to believe it was a herd of elephants romper stomping GD serverware than some show-pony hacker claiming responsibility— at least it’s a more entertaining reason for the outage. ;)~
09/12/2012 at 14:16
I doubt Own3r even knows what XSS means…..
10/13/2012 at 08:36
Swedes are taking the heat now!