a teenager , belong to the anti - scientology group anonymous , has said that he launched a distributed rejection of service ( ddos ) attack on the public page of the church of scientology , scientology . org . dmitriy guzner , aged 18 , will admit to the charges prior to holding out the ddos attack . he now faces a standard sentence of twelve hours imprisonment . in responded to cases such as these , scientology have dubbed users " counter - terrorists . " a ddos attack occurs when several computers are used to intercept a local websites with so much data that it is not accessible . the hacker attack the servers occupying up all the available places , prohibited the legitimate user from accessing .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.