Monday, February 23, 2004 "A number of Covad customers went out from 5pm today due to, supposedly, a DDOS (distributed denial of service attack) on a key Level3 data center, which later was described as a route leak (misconfiguration)." -- dslreports.com "A Level 3 spokesman would not confirm or deny that hardware was the source of the problem, nor would he elaborate on the nature of the issue." -- news.com