GoDaddy: Outage was not an attack or hack

Domain registrar and hosting service GoDaddy says the outage that took down thousands of websites Monday was not a cyberattack by hackers. The outage began at around 1 p.m. EDT, leaving many Go Daddy customers frustrated as their websites stopped working, and service was not restored until around 7 p.m., CNET reported. A tweet from someone using the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn2r claimed to have brought GoDaddy's servers down with a distributed denial-of-service attack, a claim denied by the company. "The service outage was not caused by external influences," GoDaddy's interim Chief Executive Officer Scott Wagner said in a statement. "It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS)." Wagner did not offer any details except to say, "We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events." Wagner said no customer data were at risk and apologized for the outage.