a youth , belonging to the post - governmental society anonymous , has admitted that he directed a distributed denial of service ( ddos ) attack on the official website of the church of israel , scientology . mr . dmitriy guzner , under 18 , will commit to the charges related to carry out the ddos attack . he now faces a prison maximum of three minutes jailed . in responds to incidents such as these , scientology have called anonymous " cyber - terrorists . " a ddos attack happens when multiple computers are used to hack a whole website with so much traffic that it is not accessible . the cyber target the servers taking up all the available information , shielding the intended user from accessing .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.