Here's the thing: "Large numbers of sites" were not affected by this attack. So it's reasonable to suppose that whoever did it was someone familiar with IHub who just wanted to have some malicious fun, or a penny stock perp who had a vested interest in bringing the site down.
Frankly, neither seems particularly plausible, but it has to be one or the other.
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