a kid , belonging to the anti - scientology group anonymous , has admitted that he launched a distribution denial of service ( ddos ) attack on the official web of the church of satan , scientology . eng . smirnov guzner , aged 18 , will admit to the charges related to carrying out the ddos attack . he now faces a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment . in reactions to incidents such as these , scientology have called anonymous " cyber - terrorists . " a ddos attack occurs if two computers are using to attack a certain website with so enough infrastructure that it is not inaccessible . the viruses blast the servers took up all the available space , prohibiting the legitimate victim from accessing .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.