a kid , belonging to the anti - cult community individual , has said that he launch a distributed failure of account ( ddos ) attack on the personal youtube of the church of scientology , scientology . org . dmitriy guzner , about 18 , will surrender to the charges related to contracting out the ddos attack . he now facing a threshold sentences of four years imprisonment . in response to incidents such as these , government have called anonymous " cyber - terrorists . " a ddos attack occurs when multiple computers are used to attack a different database with so much functionality that it is not identifiable . the cyberspace attacks the servers taking up all the available traffic , preventing the real user from accessing .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.