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by Jamie452 208 days ago
Sounds like it may have been a cyber attack...
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delfinom 208 days ago
"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.

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catholiccs 208 days ago
PEBKAC error
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lm28469 208 days ago
That's not what I'm hearing from insiders
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