Originally Posted by
kale73
Perhaps I'm a cynic, but the DDoS attack certainly appears to be beneficial to Cloudfare. It's certainly not outside the realm of possibility that the "hacker" is a stakeholder.
That's also the conspiracy theory behind anti-virus vendors.
DDos attacks have been used to extort money from sites. After the attack is started the attackers then send the admins an email offering to stop for a certain number of bitcoins.