A member of hacker group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down the website of GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar and hosting company — and the outage seems to be affecting at least some of the millions of GoDaddy clients. A number of users have reported that they are unable to access websites or email services which are hosted by GoDaddy, and attempts to access GoDaddy.com are met with error messages.
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The user operating the Twitter account @AnonymousOwn3r has taken responsibility for the hack, and suggested it was a not a group attack. S/he has not explained exactly why the company was targeted, but has mentioned that its DNS servers were taken down as a “test” of its security systems.
#TangoDown — godaddy.com | by @anonymousown3r |
— Anonymous (@AnonOpsLegion) September 10, 2012
@techcrunch please edit it techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/god… the attack is not coming from Anonymous coletive , the attack it’s coming only from me
— Anonymous Own3r (@AnonymousOwn3r) September 10, 2012
how long do you guys think i should let godaddy.com under my #tangodown ?
— Anonymous Own3r (@AnonymousOwn3r) September 10, 2012
@film_girl I’m taking godaddy down bacause well i’d like to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i can not talk now
— Anonymous Own3r (@AnonymousOwn3r) September 10, 2012
@film_girl yes! it’s not so complex
— Anonymous Own3r (@AnonymousOwn3r) September 10, 2012
The GoDaddy team are aware of the service issues and are working on resolving the problem.
Status Alert: Hey, all. We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it.
— Go Daddy (@GoDaddy) September 10, 2012
So many messages, can’t get to you all… Sorry to hear all your frustration. We’re working feverishly to resolve as soon as possible.
— Go Daddy (@GoDaddy) September 10, 2012
Update: Still working on it, but we’re making progress. Some service has already been restored. Stick with us.
— Go Daddy (@GoDaddy) September 10, 2012
Update:
GoDaddy’s website is back online. A notice on the site reads:
At 10:25 am PT, GoDaddy.com and associated customer services experienced intermittent outages. Services began to be restored for the bulk of affected customers at 2:43 pm PT. At no time was any sensitive customer information, such as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses, compromised. We will provide an additional update within the next 24 hours. We want to thank our customers for their patience and support.
