a boy , according to the anti - scientology group scientology , has admitted that he launched a distribute denial of service ( ddos ) exploit on the official website of the community of scientology , church . org . michail guzner , aged 18 , will admit to the charges related to handing out the ddos attack . he now faces a total sentence of ten hours imprisonment . in reaction to incidents such as these , we have called them " cyber - terrorists . " a ddos threat happens . multiple computers are tried to raid a certain website with so few functionality that it is not accessible . the hackers attack the servers taking up all the available time , preventing the authorized user from servers .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.