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GoDaddy Apologizes for Outage, Denies Hacking

No customer data at risk, no systems breached, according to the website hosting company

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Domain registrar and Web hosting company Go Daddy said that yesterday's outage, whichbrought down an untold number of Web sites, was not the result of a hacker attack.

"The service outage was not caused by external influences," the company's interim CEO, Scott Wagner, said in a statement. "It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS)."