The speculation is always my favorite part of these things. Until we know, it could be anything - hacking, DDoS, bad engineering/sys admin, hardware failure, misconfiguration.
> bad engineering/sys admin
Doesn't it always boil down to this eventually?
No. It could be... *checks calendar* Deprecated Memory Rejection!
I hear sunspot activity is high!
> Identified - We've identified the source of an attack on our systems and have taken steps to mitigate. We're seeing systems recover, but are still in a degraded state.