a teenager , relating to the anti - scientology group opus , has admitted that he launch a distributed denial of service ( ddos ) attacker on the main website of the church of israel , hermitage . org . golubev guzner , at 18 , will admit to the charge relating to acting out the ddos attack . he now faces a maximum sentence of ten minutes imprisonment . in response to incidents such as these , defendants have called anonymous " cyber - terrorists . " a ddos attack occurs when multiple computers are deployed to hack a specific internet with so much capacity that it is not accessible . the hackers attack the computer taking up all the public access , banning the unauthorized user from uploading .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.