Amazon.com hit by hackers or hardware failure? by Zivka Deleva

A hacking or not – that is the most common question that since yesterday is been posed on the issue of the outage of the best internet retail company Amazon.com. For more than half an hour, the U.S. seller couldn’t work in few European countries like Britain, France, Germany and Spain. Knowing how paranoid today’s world is, it was pretty normal that that would be the question. Amazon.com had been among the first American companies that pulled the plug on WikiLeaks after the diplomatic confidential documents came at sight. Maybe that wouldn’t happen if the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee didn’t go questioning the Amazon.com officials. ! But, unlike a lot of paranoid people that put oil in each meal, Amazon.com insiders don’t suspect that hacking is in question, but some hardware’s problem. And what happened? The thing is that some group of activists has created an online attack by making an extremely huge request for sale from customers. It is weird that only the European sites of the company were affected by the problem and maybe that gave bigger initiation for a suspect. The group hit the most on MasterCard and Visa orders, because they stopped giving donations to WikiLeaks. The giant e-store explained that the outage had happened because of the huge request right before the holidays, when it was normal for the sales to be bigger. The activist group named Anonymous also denies any relation to the situation. "After the attack was so advertised in the media, we felt that it would affect people such as consumers in a negative way and make them feel threatened by Anonymous. Simply put, attack! ing a major online retailer when people are buying presents fo! r their loved ones would be in bad taste," – states a group’s representative.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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