Go Daddy insists that outage was not a hack.

According to a press release earlier today, Go Daddy denies that the massive outage yesterday is the result of a hacker or DDoS attack.

“The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a “hack” and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS). We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. Once the issues were identified, we took corrective actions to restore services for our customers and GoDaddy.com. We have implemented measures to prevent this from occurring again.”

The outage, which occurred yesterday, was reported to be a hack by Anonymous member @AnonymousOwn3r who claimed responsibility on their Twitter feed. AnonymousOwn3r claimed to have acted alone and that this was not an action by Anonymous itself. Numerous web sites including Go Daddy’s own page were down for about 6 hours.

Go Daddy insists that data for its customers remains completely secure. So that’s at least a bright side. However, I don’t know if the internal network events story works for me. Of course, denying the attack, if it was an attack, could be asking for another round of troubles.