GoDaddy: GoDaddy Outage: Anonymous Attack Or IT Failure?

Topping tech headlines on Monday, Internet registrar GoDaddy was knocked off the grid, reportedly thanks to a member of hacker group Anonymous. Service was later restored and GoDaddy insisted that no customer data was compromised, but the outageIt's not surprising, given GoDaddy's support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). It's an easy target. But yesterday, GoDaddy's interim CEO Scott Wagner said that it wasn't a hack or a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)

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