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Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hacks Or DDoS, Caused Downtime

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-a-random-internet-person-said-otherwise dept.

miller60 writes "GoDaddy says yesterday's downtime was caused by internal network problems that corrupted data in router tables. 'The service outage was not caused by external influences,' said Scott Wagner, Go Daddy's Interim CEO. 'It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS). ... At no time was any customer data at risk or were any of our systems compromised.' The outage lasted for at least six hours, and affected web sites and email for customers of the huge domain registrar."

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  1. Had to Take the Network Down... by CanHasDIY · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... so the NSA could install their backdoors.

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  2. anonymous U So haxor!!! by DeTech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, anonymous was so good they were undetectable... And they almost got away with it too. To bad anonymous caught them.

  3. Re:Doesn't Really Help by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yup.

    "Good news everyone, we weren't compromised. We're just incompetent!"

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  4. Re:Lies by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to GoDaddy's incompetence just as easily.

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  5. Well duh ... by jest3r · · Score: 3, Funny

    If one "anonymous" person could take down 5 million websites then we might as well give up on the Internets ...

    Then again it could have been one GoDaddy Admin who accidentally misconfigured the routing tables that caused all of this ... I'd probably want to be anonymous if I was that person as well ...