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Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the finger-pointing dept.

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."

2 of 128 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I don't know by Haedrian · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sure I do. DDOSing Amazon would require a hell of a lot of clients.

    And Anonymous themselves said they weren't going to attack Amazon.

  2. Re:Yes but... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I agree, back in 1776 a bunch of evil weasels took over the colonies and look at what happened. a lot of innocent British soldiers sent over to protect the citizens died!

    One man's TERRORIST is another mans Freedom Fighter.

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