Thousands of Websites Affected by Anonymous DDoS Attack Against AFACT
The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack launched by Anonymous against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) yesterday, has ended up affecting almost 8,000 unrelated websites.
Operation Payback, the DDoS campaign led by Anonymous against anti-piracy groups and entertainment industry associations is now over a week old.
Since September 18th, when the coordinated attacks started, the group has hit websites belonging to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Dutch Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN).
