The organization's website was disrupted for over three hours with a DDOS attack

Oct 17, 2013 09:06 GMT  ·  By

Anonymous Peru has set its sights on the Peruvian Association of Authors and Composers (APDAYC), an organization that represents authors from Peru and other countries, and grants licenses for the use of musical works.  The hacktivists are displeased about several things, including the APDAYC president’s “huge salary,” the unlawful distribution of royalties, and abusive charges for music.

As a result, the hackers have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against the organization’s website. The site, APDAYC.org.pe, was down for over three hours due to the attack launched by the hackers.

At the time of writing, the website of APDAYC appears to be working properly.

On its social media accounts, APDAYC has denied the accusations brought against the organization, arguing that there is “much misinformation.”