The nascent National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) division of the FBI which describes its mission as a "national critical infrastructure threat assessment, warning, vulnerability, and law enforcement investigation and response entity," made the following announcement:

"On the afternoon of August 05, 2002, the National Infrastructure Protection Center received credible, but nonspecific information that wide-scale hacker attacks against U.S. websites and Internet Service Providers (ISP) are being planned for later tonight, possibly emanating from Western Europe"

Apparently any attacks that might have been attempted were ineffective as most Internet Availabity metrics showed no widespread effect.