One year on, Raspberry Pi hit by more DDoS attacks: coincidence?

The news wires have been buzzing over the weekend after it emerged that the Raspberry Pi website had been hit by a 'million zombie' Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack during the week. Although the outage was relatively brief, with the Raspberry Pi Foundation admitting the attack with a Twitter message that stated "We're being DDoS'd at the moment—very sorry if you can't see the website" and continued "If it goes on, we'll try to get some more capacity in tomorrow". The attack meant that parts of the site were offline for e a few hours while others were very slow and intermittent.