An hour-long outage hit airlines, banks and the Hong Kong Stock exchange. It s thought to have been caused by a DDoS mitigation service. The outage was triggered at approximately 1 a.m. EST Thursday. Financial institutions including Discover and Navy Federal Credit Union were also affected. Akamai confirmed a segment of its Prolexic platform was impacted and is now back up and running. Virgin Australia also published a statement to its customers attributing an outage it suffered to the service.
Source: https://threatpost.com/hiccup-akamais-ddos-outages/167004/