Last Thursday, a Twitter account purported to be from Wikileaks’ Anonymous supporters (the same group which brought down PayPal, Mastercard and Visa’s websites) threatened to take down Amazon in a similar DDoS attack. Seemingly it failed, but Amazon’s websites in the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain went offline for about 30 minutes each last night, due to a “hardware failure in our European datacenter network,” claims an Amazon rep.
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-could-be-the-next-site-brought-down-by-wikileaks-5710263
Amazon looks safe now, as on Saturday the Anonymous group said they would cease attacking websites, and instead focus on spreading the thousands of cables released by Wikileaks, instead. [The Guardian]
