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Originally Posted by NickyC

It was an attack, DDOS from China focused mainly on St. Louis.

http://map.norsecorp.com/

Not quite.

NorseCorp was founded in St. Louis, and their administrative operations are still based here. A good portion of the traps they use to find suspicious activity are routed through there, so on that map, it appears that a lot of traffic is attacking St. Louis.