a teenager , belonging to the against - scientology group anonymous , has admitted that he launched a distributed denial of service ( ddos ) attack on the official web of the church of scientology , scientology . www . dmitriy guzner , older 18 , will confesses to the charges unrelated to handing out the ddos attack . he now faces a threshold sentence of ten years jail . in reactions to incidents such as these , scientology have termed anonymous " cyber - terrorists . " a ddos attack occur when multiple computing are used to attack a certain website with so much activity that it is not accessibility . the hackers attack the internet taking up all the unused media , preventing the malicious user from accessing .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.