Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-02-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Namecheap
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Web-hosting service Namecheap is hit with one of the largest distributed-denial-of-service attacks affecting roughly 300 domain names hosted by Namecheap.