The attack was aimed at a Minecraft server named Wynncraft and it involved UDP and TCP floods. However, the web security firm said it mitigated the attack, preventing it from causing any disruption to the game.

While this may have been a record-breaking attack for Cloudflare, Microsoft last year observed an attack that peaked at 3.47 Tbps and another that reached 3.25 Tbps.

Cloudflare this year also saw an attack reaching 26 million requests per second (RPS). The attack was noteworthy particularly for the fact that it was powered by a small botnet of only 5,000 devices. However, in terms of RPS, Google saw the biggest attack known to date, which peaked at 46 million RPS.