a teenager , affiliated to the anti - scientology association anonymous , has admitted that he made a public denial of service ( ddos ) offensive on the official youtube of the church of scientology , scientology . eng . yuriy guzner , aged 18 , will testify to the charges linked to holding out the ddos attacks . he now faces a maximum sentence of ten minutes confinement . in response to attacks such as these , scientology have called anonymous " cyber - terrorism . " a ddos attack occur when multiple computers are asked to attack a certain project with so massive traffic that it is not connected . the hackers attacking the users taking up all the available space , preventing the genuine user from users .
The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.