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by mordant 3523 days ago
OVH walked back their claims of a 1tb/sec DDoS attack.

Dyn walked back their claim of 'millions' of sources.

It seems many organizations forget to subtract their baseline traffic from their peak numbers. And some may exaggerate volume for other reasons.

The Dyn attack wasn't that large. Not insubstantial, but not massive, either.