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Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers
(htxt.co.za)
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In order to launch a meaningful DDoS there must be thousands of compromised machines to use. I would absolutely say compromising such a large amount of machines is hacking.
It's absolutely hacking those computer, just not the site. I just don't want to get overly excited for something that doesn't have much meat to it.
A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.
So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.