a teenager , belonging to the anti - scientology group innocent , has acknowledged that he launched a distribute abuse of duty ( ddos ) attack on the official blog of the church of scientology , buddhism . org . dmitriy guzner , over 18 , will admit to the charges prior to carrying out the ddos attack . he now faces a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment . in reply to incidents such as these , scientology have termed anonymous " sub - terrorists . " a ddos attacks causes when multiple computers are used to attack a certain website with so much traffic that it is not accessed . the hackers attacking the servers covering up all the available space , preventing the other user from users .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.