… Emiliano De Cristofaro, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside, told Newsweek that he highly doubted a DDoS was responsible.
“There is no evidence of any malicious activity happening but more importantly no other functionality was affected,” he said.
“It is much more likely that the platform just couldn’t handle a sudden big spike in the number of users trying to stream,” the professor added.
NetBlocks, a nonprofit that monitors cybersecurity, said in an online post that the incident was understood to be due to a server issue, though later reshared a post which stated that “any sufficiently overloaded server is indistinguishable [from a DDOS attack].”
