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Sounds like it may have been a cyber attack...




That's not what I'm hearing from insiders

"Unusual spike of traffic" can just be errant misconfiguration that causes traffic spikes just from TCP retries or the like. Jumping to "cyber attack" is eating up Hollywood drama.

In most cases, it's just cloud services eating shit from a bug.


PEBKAC error



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