EDITOR'S NOTE

Good afternoon,

Optus has confirmed that a large Australian customer was the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack yesterday, in an attack that originated in China.

The million dollar question - who was the target?

-- Brett Winterford

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