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The Cloudflare Blog·Mar 27, 2013·17 min read53

The DDoS that almost broke the Internet

The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online. The Times calls the attack the largest known DDoS attack ever on the Internet.

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