GoDaddy gets torpedoed - Anonymous claims responsibility

GoDaddy's website and sites that it hosts have gone down as the result of an alleged attack by Anonymous. It's a pretty significant Denial of Service (DOS) attack and this incident is surely going to result in an FBI investigation - remember what happened after the Paypal DOS - Feds Arrest 14 ‘Anonymous’ Suspects Over PayPal Attack, Raid Dozens More. Hopefully, if they do find, arrest, and prosecute the offenders, they will do a better job of handling the evidence than they did in the Paypal case - see my post about that here: In Paypal DDOS case, government reprimanded for failure to analyze and return data in a timely fashion.

Anonymous claimed responsibility via Twitter.

GoDaddy has confirmed, via twitter that it is experiencing issues - see their twitter account here: GoDaddy

A CBS news story regarding the incident can be read, here: GoDaddy goes down, Anonymous claims responsibility.

(As I post this, I see that Cybercrime Review is down - not sure if this is a part of the GoDaddy lulz.)

Update 1: As I mentioned on Twitter @Cybercrimerev, it appears the attack was not Anonymous collectively, but AnonymousOwn3r individually. This tweet here (NSFW), shows some dissension in the Anonymous ranks - an unsurprising development since the group has never congealed into a fully aligned faction.  In my opinion, that is the greatest strength of Anonymous - anyone can pick up the torch.