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"The hack involved overloading the HHS servers with millions of hits over several hours." A freaked out public could case the same...
by sschueller 7y ago
"The hack involved overloading the HHS servers with millions of hits over several hours."
A freaked out public could case the same...
- empath75 7y agoYeah i was wondering if it's possible that they've just never had significant traffic before.
- crazygringo 7y agoIndeed. 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.
- londons_explore 7y agoAs could someones scraper or bot configured to have zero timeout between data refreshes...