a student , affiliated to the al - christian group anonymous , has admitted that he committed a distributed denial of access ( ddos ) attack on the official online of the church of god , scientology . org . dmitriy guzner , aged 18 , will confessed to the charges related to carrying out the ddos bombing . he now faces a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment . in response to incidents such as these , scientology have called anonymous " cyber - spies . " a ddos threat occurs when multiple computers are used to intercept a common website with so much traffic that it is not inaccessible . the thieves attack the servers taking up all the unused data , prevent the legitimate visitor from accessing .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.