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The title is misleading -- it was customer servers on OVH that were exploited en masse and then proceeded to flood the network with DDOS and bot traffic, not OVH itself (apparently).

This has likely happened to loads of VPS and dedicated server providers. One consequence of hosting such a service is that you typically end up with a lot of poorly administered crack houses on your network.




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