U.S. Health Agency Suffers Cyber-Attack During Covid-19 Response
bloomberg.com
bloomberg.com
A freaked out public could case the same...
First of all, a DDoS attack (if that's what it was) isn't a hack.
Second of all, remember a "hit" can be incredibly misleading. A single webpage that makes 100 requests is 100 hits. So millions of hits could be merely 10,000's of visits over several hours...
...which sounds entirely reasonable, no? Like someone popular on Twitter posting a link to the site.
Story doesn't add up.
the phrase "one of the people" is used 4 times in 5.5 paragraphs.
"The hacking involved multiple incidents."
"The tweet was in part meant to address the hacking, which involved multiple incidents."
these two sentences are back-to-back.
>The hack involved overloading the HHS servers with millions of hits over several hours.
how does this lead to a distribution of fake information? technically, this article does not make sense.
>The attack appears to have been intended to slow the agency’s systems down, but didn’t do so in any meaningful way, said the people, who asked for anonymity to discuss an incident that was not public.
this is also not congruous with the hack leading to the release of false information, and is grammatically incorrect.
Does anyone have a copy or screenshot of this tweet?