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Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Amazon has denied reports that its European sites were brought down by a DoS attack by a hacker group sympathetic to Wikileaks cause. The retailer was a planned target for the attackers, called Anonymous. But Amazon said it was a hardware failure in its European data centre network that caused the half hour outage in Europe."

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  1. Re:I don't know by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 4, Funny

    In fact, a whole cloud of them.

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