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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."

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  1. Re:Beginning of the End of DDoS? by nicholas22 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It all depends on the actual DDoS load. There's no such thing as infinite bandwidth, you see. Amazon was down for 30 minutes in 4 countries on Sunday. And this by some quasi-organized group of script kiddies. So no, I don't see that being the case yet at all...

  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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