I am curious if the DDoS attacks mentioned in the article are in any way correlated to Linode's recent downtime (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806686 h

I am curious if the DDoS attacks mentioned in the article are in any way correlated to Linode's recent downtime (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806686). The timing fits...