California-based Staminus Communications is recovering a massive data breach after hackers broke down into its servers and leaked personal and sensitive details of its customers. The company’s website went offline at 8 am Eastern Time on Thursday, and on Friday afternoon, a representative said in a Twitter post that “a rare event cascaded across multiple routers in a system-wide event, making our backbone unavailable” The total number of victims has not been known yet, Forbes reported that the data breach included at least 15 gigabytes worth of data.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/03/ddos-protection.html