A member of Anonymous, the loose hacking collective, claimed responsibility on Monday for an attack that apparently brought down Web sites hosted by Go Daddy.
The company’s site was down on Monday afternoon, as were many of the Web sites hosted on its servers, including the fantasy sports site Draft Day.
“We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site,” Go Daddy said through its Twitter account. “We’re working on it.”
The person behind the Twitter account
@AnonymousOwn3r took responsibility for the attack and said he had knocked out all of Go Daddy’s servers with what is known as a distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS, in which a site is flooded with traffic until it collapses under the load.
@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) 10 Sep 12
“When i do some DDOS attack, I like to let it down by many days,” the person claiming responsibility said on Twitter. “It can last one hour or one month.”
This person said that he had conducted the attack alone and that it was not part of a broader Anonymous campaign. Through its Twitter account, Go Daddy said it could not estimate when its servers might be back up.
