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I don't see why they'd do that. A 'russian hacking' narrative would serve the parties interest, and while they won't sink to the level of actually insinuating that the attack was carried out by state actors (which seems very unlikely) there's no harm in letting the media do their thing.

The BBC are reporting it was a run of the mill DDoS attack.

I suppose "large" is relative. The numbers for a DDoS attack can look large to someone with little experience (journalists, PR, small-time IT department, etc...) and the same numbers could be in inconsequential daily occurrence for a large scale provider.

IDK the details, but "large-scale" could also mean that they tried to attack multiple services/servers.

And also probably a bit more dedicated and targeted that the normal password brute-forceing and vulnerability scanning that is going on all the time anyway.