Re: 600,000 routers bricked

It appears that Robert Jacobs <rjacobs@pslightwave.com> said:

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If you do a bit more digging the ISP is not Lumen ... It is a well known ISP

It's Windstream. and I recall reading about this

outage when it happened. I don’t know if indeed this was a botched attempt to gather a bot network or like some said an intentional act to get attention.

Nobody else knows either. For me the most interesting question is where did Windstream get 600,000 replacement routers and how long did it take. The original attack was three days.