Cyber-attack Mars Glenn Beck Fundraiser

NEWSMAX:

Unknown assailants employed a sophisticated cyber attack Thursday to destroy a FreedomWorks server, crashing the grass-roots organization’s Web site just as Fox News personality and radio host Glenn Beck directed listeners there for a major fund-raising push in the critical waning days of the 2010 campaign.

The precisely timed denial-of-service attack sowed chaos, snarling the organization’s Web traffic and setting off a flood of calls from frustrated radio listeners who were unable to access the site to make their donations. The group estimates the attack cost over $40,000 in lost donations alone.

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