GoDaddy’s services
are experiencing intermittent outages today. The attacks brought down huge
number of websites that are using DNS and hosting services provided by GoDaddy.
However, GoDaddy released no official figure that
tells how many websites were affected by the attacks.
Besides kept updating the scenario by
Tweets, GoDaddy did also inserted Notice Bar on the top of the company’s
website ( GoDaddy.com ). The notice bar shown officially acknowledgement from GoDaddy that the company's services were experienced intermittent outages at 10:25 am PT, and the services
began to be restored for the bulk of affected customers at 2.43 pm PT. GoDaddy
did also stressed that at no time was any sensitive customer information, such
as credit card data, passwords or names and addresses are compromised.
Anonymous Own3r Claimed Responsibility
A Twitter
account named ‘Anonymous Own3r’ claimed the responsibility for the attacks with
the tweet “ I’m taking godaddy down because well I’d like to test how the cyber
security is safe and for more reasons that I can not talk now.”
GoDaddy - The World's Largest Secure Websites Hosting Provider
As claimed
by GoDaddy in their website, they are the world’s largest domain name registrar
and web hosting provider, which manages more than 53 million of domain names,
as well as the world’s largest hosting provider of Secure Sites. Thus, this happening did really startle many people, and raised more
concerns over the Internet’s Security.
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