A self-professed member of the internet activist group Anonymous has taken credit for the attack on GoDaddy hosted web and email servers that has taken down countless websites and knocked out access to large portions of the internet, leaving the company
scrambling to restore access to their servers. The attacker, which can only be described as 'l33t', says that he wanted to punish GoDaddy for its support of the SOPA bill, which many believed had the potential to harm free and open access to the internet, saying, "I didn't really think this through."