On February 7, 2000, a smurf attack generating over 1 gigabit per second of Internet Control Message Protocol traffic was launched against Yahoo! 's routers, causing their websites to be inaccessible to the world for hours.
On February 7, 2000, a significant smurf attack against Yahoo! 's routers resulted in over one gigabit per second of Internet Control Message Protocol traffic, causing their websites to be unavailable to the world for hours.