Mmm...thats what AFN got Hit with years ago...and you know Im a Technosaurus..so how it was Explained to me...
Every site has a certain/paid for bandwidth...DDOS attacks Jam the bandwidth with multiple..mutiple incoming messages all at the same time...so no one can gain access.....like being in a Huge huge queue to get In.....
When AFN got DDOS Hack we got help from Anonymous to track it down and stop it..and it turned out to be a 14 year old kid.
When had photos of him and everything that they pulled from his social media account as they tracked him down..