Go Daddy denies DDoS, blames internal glitch

Web host Go Daddy has denied an outage which affected potentially millions of sites on Monday was caused by a hack.

It said the outage was instead caused by internal technical malfunctions.

"The service outage ...  was not a hack and it was not a denial of service attack," interim chief executive Scott Wagner said in a statement. "We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."

But the attacker, using the handle @AnonymousOwn3r, posted a link to what they said was source code stolen from the company during the attack.

Go daddy souce code and database leaked by @anonymousown3r pastebin.com/WMb4Qg7H

— Anonymous Own3r (@AnonymousOwn3r) September 11, 2012

However further research by Twitter users revealed the posted code was identical to that uploaded to a Google Project Hosting page.

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