With the collected power of millions of these devices working in tandem, the hackers sent wave after wave
of web request to Internet service company Dyn.
Indeed, the first Windows Phone 7.8 update was apparently responsible for the Live Tiles to not only stop their updates but was causing the smartphones to use up their battery power more than normal due to the bug causing the Live Tiles to generate
continuous web requests.
Anticipated traffic spiking up to 20,000
web requests per minute as we dominated a day's news cycle and oriented web properties for same with Auto - Scaling and intense security reviews.
Roughly two out of five customers who ordered on
the Web requested help either by E-mail or by telephone.
Log file information may include anonymous information such as
your web request, Internet Protocol («IP») address, browser type, information about your mobile device, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.
The web request is sent to Facebook alongside your cookie.