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I wanted to revenge play, never do it btw. Downtime aspect.

I wanted to revenge play, never do it btw. I tried to re log in by frustration and I came to a funny click me or space animation at Down time.
Alarm triggered it’s not only me... checked the site-down status and all Continents were down, other limited (As it did not bother after the conclusion, not my job) passive recon brought me to a safe state of the site but I noticed the Hyper Text code 200 ( In maintenance) So I further looked deeper into that site down report along with console/inspect or F12... and came to suspicion of an api related problem. Now kudos for the sys.admin that made it shut down before any data leaked on all servers and did his forensics as I expected it could last longer they brought site up in an impressive time. Probably just a bug or some wanna try skid that will face the lesson in a hard way ( He pissed me off therefore) or not any attack as that play the funny mini game suggested. No Data are reached means, they asserted as they know their log in credentials etc and many measures to ensure secure start up servers.
Further details is for the experts I guess ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄

But the security accession you have assures me.
I never use API... for the reason it is a pain in the .... to secure that connection.
That dnsflush sollution only applied NOT to 8.8.8.8 domain or namely Google, that was not the problem. And even those using that as DNS.... it solved a no thing.

Prevention, as I see many things where are potential risks from the user, whether he did with purpose or not knowing it.
And again kudos for the Security Team and thank's to get the site online so fast.