Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Amazon has denied reports that its European sites were brought down by a DoS attack by a hacker group sympathetic to Wikileaks cause. The retailer was a planned target for the attackers, called Anonymous. But Amazon said it was a hardware failure in its European data centre network that caused the half hour outage in Europe."

Re:I don't know

[Errol backfiring]

In fact, a whole cloud of them.

Re:I know one thing...

[gstoddart]

Don't believe anything you hear or read, and only half of what you see.

I don't believe that. ;-)

Re:possible cause of failure

[Opportunist]

You don't watch many action movies, do you? From them I learned that you can even make computers explode by things like entering the wrong password or just hitting the wrong key. And they also throw you halfway across the room when they blow up in sparkles.