No. each individual attacker is actually an infected "bot" of somekind. In this case, Internet of Things devices all over the world. Your "smart TV" or "Smart refridgerator" all contributed to this, over YOUR bandwdith.

The average broadband user has at the least, 10Mbps/UP. If your smart appliances all started sending at least 10mbps up... you only need a million smart TV's to start causing damage.

I'm guessing there's 100M Smart TV's in the USA? Each sending 10Mb/s up? There's 1GB/s of traffic. Multiply this by the next 50 nations who have smart TVs and bandwidth to spare...

Then make it multiuple devices in a home. Then make it every smart device on the planet, using SOME bandwidth... it gets painful fast, and its free for the attackers, since the poor sap with a hacked smart TV is doing the work.