Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-07-24 00:00:00
Affected organization: Undisclosed streaming service
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Researchers from Imperva reveal that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that lasted for 13 days, launched from 402,000 different IPs, with a peak flow of 292,000 requests per second.