Watch Live: Congressional Hearing on IRS Scandal

Live Now on TheBlaze Radio: ‘The Buck Sexton Show’

Business

Small Business Owners Direct Frustration Toward Anonymous for Alleged Hack of GoDaddy Sites

Sep. 10, 2012 6:15pm Liz Klimas

Anonymous Faction Claims Responsibility for Downing GoDaddy.com Servers

(Image: Wikimedia)

Thousands — possibly millions — of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com are down. A faction of the hacktivist collective Anonymous is claiming responsibility, but the real reason for the outage is unclear.

What is clear by taking a glance at the tweets directed toward the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn3r is that some business owners using GoDaddy.com to host their sites are upset. Here is just a sampling of the tweets from users expressing their confusion and anger toward this Anonymous member:

Even with this Anonymous account claiming responsibility, other factions relating to the loosely connected hacking group are distancing themselves.

Anonymous Faction Claims Responsibility for Downing GoDaddy.com Servers

Some on Twitter are asking for @AnonymousOwn3r to reveal its motives for taking down GoDaddy.com, if it actually is responsible for the hack.

GoDaddy.com hosts more than 5 million websites, mostly for small businesses. Websites that were complaining about outages on Twitter included MixForSale.com, which sells accessories with Japanese animation themes, and YouWatch.org, a video sharing site.

GoDaddy.com alerted users on Twitter that it was aware of the situation. Here is the server’s latest Twitter feed with updates:

Anonymous Faction Claims Responsibility for Downing GoDaddy.com Servers

Update: On Tuesday, GoDaddy has come out to say that neither a hack nor a denial of service attack is what downed its servers yesterday. Interim CEO Scott Wagner said it was the result of “a series of internal network events,” not the work of Anonymous or other hackers.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

Back to The Blaze »

Comments (51)

fabjr71
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:11pm
People will care when these idiots take the US power grid down. I would gladly donate $$$ to hire a bounty hunter to track these people down and take down their operations and bring them to justice. I am constantly blacklisting hacker attempts into my server on a daily basis. It is time to do something about this and if we have to shut down the US internet to and monitor the traffic to make it happen, then so be it. However, I would rather we bring these people to justice by any means necessary.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- stumpy68
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:19pm
  LOL the half dozen decent hackers or the thousands of idiots
  who do what their told to do thinking that they are a “part of something big”
  
  Report this comment
COFemale
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:47am
I wonder if Brett Kimberlin’s site is down too. His sites, I believe, are hosted indirectly by GoDaddy.com I just tried his Justice Through Music and it is up. It is hidden through DomainsByProxy.com, but they are hosted on GoDaddy.

It is shame that some script kiddies have way too much time on their hands and feel taking web servers down is somehow fun and impresses people. NOT

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
h20sue
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:51am
As a small business owner (only two of us), the banks, and I will give names: Bank of America, Advanta, Capitol One, etc, who begged us to take out loans with 0% to increase the size of our businesses in 2008 and 2009, are not garnishing our business checking accounts as our businesses are in desperate need of help. BOA is by no means the 100% worst. I’m struggling to keep my customers happy and serviced on time. Many have been with me since 2004, and like family. Taxpayers (me) helped bail out Bank of America, and this is how I’m treated. I thought it was illegal for a bank to garnish LLC bank accounts? I’ve had to close my account which I’ve had since I opened my business in 2004. Makes me sick to my stomach to be treated, after they have charged me 29.9% interest after the 0% ended. The entire problem was when Obama was elected and took office. If the country and Obama wants small business to succeed, he needs to stop this nonsense!
Anyone know anything about this before I have to hire an attorney? Thank you….

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
TheMajority
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:06am
You can’t trust a person who wears a mask. I thought they were for “the little guy”, but it looks like they are just another commie group, behind a mask—attacking the little guys.

Hey Anonymous, the communists your are feed by, are stealing your Capitalism from you too,—-fools!. Don’t attack your own Capitalism, because when the government(s) run the economy, it is then called communism. And under communism, we all share the same dog food.

Hey Anonymous, Wise up, and you won’t have to remain fools with a mask, working for food. Use your skills for “good will” business, and enjoy your Capitalsim, while encouraging (from courage) others to do the same. There is much life to live when the citizens own Capitalism (those you just attacked). Much more than the poverty of communism that is offered to you.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
voting-for-romney
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:59am
Well, there are not that many big companies around that would benefit from GoDaddy loosing customers? GoDaddy reversed its stand on SOPA so there has to be more to it than that? It is not a co-incidence that not one, but two “penetrating test tools” (linux distros) were released recently?

Hackers don’t like it when they loose everything, and the ability to release further versions of linux distros is putting that card on the table, and the ability of private enterprise to diversify software is in jeopardy with every new hack? The computing industry without ethics will not survive?

They are actually questioning the integrity of the voting system world wide if certain private companies gain control of the electronic voting machines and the servers making the tallies? An easy way to prevent fraud would be to publish the serial numbers (ballot cast serial number) that is not identifiable with any personal data, and if you can record that data, you can verify the public list against your serial number that you write down when you cast your vote?

The days when election watchers are going to be able to sit there with the records exposed is also something that encourages voter fraud? How many people don’t vote at all, because they have no paper receipt of their vote and know they can’t verify their vote anyway? If they can hack GoDaddy, they can hack the electronic voting machines, and we have to take precautions?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- TheMajority
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:13am
  That was yesterdays news. Tomarrows news is (since The Blaze won’t report on it today)—we don’t count the votes in the USA anymore. Yep, that is right, a company in Spain named “SCYTL”, who are backers of obama and friends with soros, is counting our votes starting in 2012, by a swipe of obama’s pen.
  
  It is impossible to retain representation, if we don’t count the votes here.
  
  Swipe of a pen after swipe of a pen. Is that birth certificate issue starting to become important to save our Republic? Blaze????
  
  Report this comment
- COFemale
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:51am
  The Majority: I am sorry but that is old news. That information was about weeks ago. Perhaps you might want to pay attention more, rather than come spout off something you don’t know.
  
  Report this comment
Master.Debater
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:20am
GoDaddy Hosting is notoriously poor anyway. Why any serious business that depends on their web presence would be using them is a mystery to me.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- yougottabekidding
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:49am
  It really does not matter!
  
  What does matter is that anonymous is a bunch of cowards that hide in the dark and destroy, that is their only goal. They do not care who or what they destroy they just want to prove they stand for nothing but stupidity. They could not function in the real world!
  
  Report this comment
Ragnars Repos
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:08am
Interesting that these small businesses will be so overt in their attacks on Anon.

Question: Why don’t they behave this way toward the US government, which is blatantly oppressing them and their families?

Note to American business owners: The biggest threat to your livelihood, besides yourself, is your government.

Mindless drones/slaves, the lot of you.

Wake up!

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- charleyrocks
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:41am
  Go Daddy is owned by a very fat man who likes to kill elephants in Africa to put on his wall So with that being said I don’t care!
  
  Report this comment
Searchingforthelight
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:36pm
Funny about an Ican rule that makes you update your address or loose your websites? I was shocked when I called G-Daddy on that rule. Changed my address and said, “No you can’t.”

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- COFemale
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:56am
  I think you misunderstand the rule. It has too send you periodic emails to verify your address information is still the same or nothing else has changed. If nothing has changed you don’t need to do anything. All my emails state this. However, I do go and log on to my provider to show I have been there recently.
  
  FYI: ICANN is the agency.
  
  Report this comment
REVerse
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:01pm
It wouldn’t surprise me if Anonymous’ leaders are Bill Ayers and/or Van Jones.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Saving_the_Republic.com
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:21pm
  I doubt it was Ayers & Jones…. but what should be pointed out are the motives. This AnonymousOwn3r went after GoDaddy and all of us website owners for the same reasons believe it or not Bin Laden went after US civilians. Anonymous Operations ‏(Anon_Central) & Anonymous(AnonOpsLegion) tweeted:
  “By using / supporting Godaddy, you are supporting censorship of the Internet.”
  
  Bin Laden used this same logic. As you know he blamed the US government for problems in the middle east but said in an interview in ’98 that US citizens are a target because we pay taxes to the government and elected the leaders who put those policies into motion!!
  
  So Anonymous is using the same exact logic and as a whole are no different than any other terrorist organization! They don’t even realize some of the sites they affected were sites who are trying to get the message out so their attack in itself was an act of censorship!!!
  
  Report this comment
Al J Zira
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:03pm
If Anon. keeps targeting businesses then businesses should go after them. They have more power than anyone else in this country to deal with these $%^%&, so do something about it and help us out.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:55pm
its foriegn nation states playing anon-

thats it- deal with it… there is so much cyber-warfare going on now

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
mrprof
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:35pm
Will no one rid us of these meddlesome hackers?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:54pm
  In my opinion, hacking into an individual’s or a business’s secure network/system should be the equivalent of physical breaking and entering, and it should be prosecuted as such.
  
  Hackers like to pretend that they are some kind of vigilante whistleblower force, and in a very few, very rare cases they MIGHT be able to honestly claim that, but even when that is true it should not preclude prosecution.
  
  If James O’Keefe can be prosecuted and persecuted for his patriotic efforts to expose real corruption and malfeasance, then hackers should get it at least as bad.
  
  Report this comment
HorseCrazy
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:01pm
As a mom I hate the godaddy marketing and slutty trashy commercials. My small business will never use them in any of my divisions for websites due to their marketing campaigns. I think the small business owners need to take a deep breath and redirect their anger at Godaddy for not protecting their info and being this open to hacking. On a side note I miss the good old days, all of this online everything paperless business etc is garbage. Hacking, servers down, power outages etc can obliterate business in a heart beat these days. I miss the simplicity of the paper file and newspaper ads. oh well

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Jenny Lind
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:31pm
  Amen. sometimes it’s just so frustrating, and I just pick up the phone and punch all the numbers after I connect, and get a real live person (even if they are in India.)
  
  Report this comment
- El Paco
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:57am
  Horse, I respect your view as a mother and non-approval of Go-daddy’s advertising, but remember this. Anything can be hacked. I mean EVERYTHING can be hacked. It only takes time and resources and knowledge of computer code. People hack the government servers on a daily basis. That’s not hollywood, that’s real life. Directing anger towards Go-daddy’s failure to protect against the NFL of hackers…. that’s asking too much. I hope that they get their stuff back up since my good friend’s business got hit with this hack. Thankfully, it was his blog domain, not his store-front.
  
  Report this comment
Bluntobj
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:43pm
Can also be a great false flag operation, as cover for a trial run of a DHS information suppression program. Perhaps even a state sponsored proof of concept cyberwarfare by a foreign government. What better group to blame than anonymous?

/Tinfoil hat

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:51pm
  It’s pretty well known the State Department is out of control isn’t it?
  
  Report this comment
- KevINtampa
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:42pm
  Please, Anonymous isn’t a “group” it’s just a name. That’s all. It’s why someone who says they are the leader of anonymous is funny. There is no leader, there are not even any members.
  
  That’s point of the anonymous tag. Security (from being detected) by obscurity. With thousands of disjointed hackers claiming the name it makes it that much harder to connect the forensic dots.
  
  And you are right, I’ve said it from the very beginning, before anyone new what Anonymous meant, it would be the perfect cover for government cyber ops. So much so, I wouldn’t doubt that the government had a had in it’s creation, at least the publicity of it.
  
  Report this comment
thecrow2123
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:27pm
So much skill this group has and just waste’s it doing things like this. It’s too bad they won’t use it to open the flood gates on corrupt polititions, airing all their dirty laundry without any political bias. Theirs dirt on both sides of the isle, expose it so they can be voted out or even impeached. Start with the top of the food chain checking them out and exposing them and work your way down. They could use their talents to bring about real and much needed change. Oh well, it was a short but pleasant dream.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- turkey13
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:47pm
  You folks tain’t seen nothing yet. Come November president Obama will be the 2 ND president to win by 100%. He will be in that rare group with Sodmey Hussan.
  
  Report this comment
- thecrow2123
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:55pm
  you mean we will actually be allowed to vote ?
  
  Report this comment
lynda1276
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:22pm
we were dead in the water for a couple of hours- thanks, morons!

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- FREEDOMoverFEAR
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:36pm
  This hacker said it was easy to hack godaddy and that it needed better security. So I say if you come across a hacker break their jaw to show them they need better security for their face.
  
  Report this comment
- Wool-Free Vision
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:40pm
  Hahaha! Funniest comment I have read all day! Thanks for the laugh, FreedomOverFear, that’s good stuff.
  
  Report this comment
TRILO
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:08pm
This outage has created a serious problems for our company today. Funny how this happens just as the Tyrant in Chief revels his executive order version of CISPA. Now the sheeple will be all too happy to allow the government greater power to usurp their freedoms and liberty so that they can feel safer. . Somewhere out there is a Dept of Homeland Security agent or other government agent posing as an international hacker. NOTHING happens by coincidence

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- eronthomas
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:58pm
  Trilo….. That is exactly what I was thinking…. http://gayconservatists.webnode.com/
  
  Report this comment
- drs1969
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:03pm
  First thought I had, as well.
  
  Report this comment
Eastinfection
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:05pm
I hear Danica Patrick is so mad over this, she may wreck her car in qualifying next week.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
watersRpeople
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:37pm
Now I know the people whose souls [can do] went on vacation over 100 years ago, and so that begs to question where by what means new innovation came to be.
Log in to ReplyReply
- grayling646
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:15pm
  It came to be when Minapar ruled the Lower Empire by the seventh star. Over yonder. When the Cagotimas overthrew Minapar all was lost. A sad day indeed.
  
  Report this comment
- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:27pm
  The people who know the truth, and hide it from the masses – those people enjoy watching all the people put forth conspiracy theories and the like. It’s food for them, because they have such lowly spirits, empty because they have no fruit so they have to steal fruit. And those in-the-know sit there saying “Fools”, but they themselves are the fruitless fools.
  
  Report this comment
- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:37pm
  Therefore it makes sense that Jesus said: I will not accuse you.
  
  Report this comment
- chips1
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:48pm
  WATER:
  You better go to a Doctor and get a check up. You might have fruit flies.
  
  Report this comment
- grayling646
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:43pm
  But know this Waters, Minapaar (Minapar’s son) is a strong and wise man. If the Cagotimas’ fail to recognize this, Mianpaar will reign and all will prosper again. Are you with us?
  
  Report this comment
jmcclena
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:26pm
Go Daddy was a strong supporter of SOPA.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
watersRpeople
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:26pm
In this age most people who want a business do so out of the love to say “Behold, I own my own business” they enjoy putting those words before them, and then eating again those words. But the fact of the matter is that any souls who could really bring about new amazing innovation…..won’t. They went on vacation oh over 100 years ago.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- barber2
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:40pm
  speaking of going on a vacation…
  
  Report this comment
- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:43pm
  barber2,
  What do you mean? I’ve been resting for the longest time it seems.
  
  Report this comment
Tri-ox
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:25pm
Well, the ‘obama 2012′ campaign is behind ANONYMOUS and OCCUPY, so, any complaints should be forwarded directly to enemy-obama.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- barber2
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:39pm
  Agree. All part of the international militant/ anarchistic / Far Left. The Obama Crowd marches in lock step. That is where their loyalties are. Far beyond America’s shores.
  
  Report this comment
- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:08pm
  @TRI-OX.. wrong order.. Anonymous was behind Obama 08, Occupy, & is currently behind Obama 12.
  
  Report this comment
- pondfrog
  Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:44pm
  @east Occupy and Anon are one in the same.
  
  Report this comment
Impenitent
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:24pm
making enemies of the wrong people will certainly benefit their cause…

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply

It appears that you have Javascript Disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser preferences for a better user experience on TheBlaze. You can not comment without Javascript enabled.