Through the end of 2016 and throughout 2017 multiple Mirai based botnets targeted multiple Akamai customers. The very first Mirai attack however was a multi-day barrage, weighing in at a peak of 620/Gbps that sent shockwaves across the Internet. The same botnet would go on to conduct several hard hitting attacks across the Internet and cause widespread outages.
On 12/13/2017 the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) announced multiple actors pled guilty to attacks linked to the original Mirai botnet. In this announcement they also listed Akamai and other organizations as a source of "additional assistance".
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