Marshall Islands Attacked

The Marshall Islands, an island chain housing 55,000+ people came under attack today.
The attack didn't involve bombs, missiles, guns, or any invading forces. This attack was brought about by a small group of "Hackers", who executed a distributed denial of service attack on the National Telecommunications Authority. This attack did not destroy, or damage any property/infrastructure, rather, temporarily cut off communications with the outside world. Marshall Island residents were still able to communicate inside the NTA network. The attack was a generically low-tech one, consisting of a mass spamming of the mail servers. The incoming spam filled up all the routes for mail exiting, thus rendering the servers useless. These spam mails were sent via a series of zombie computers from around the world. Presumably an individual (Re: One Person) had complete control of all the zombies from a private IRC channel, and is still executing the attack from there.

As of Late, "Botnets" have become an increasingly lucrative business for hackers. While relatively easy to setup, Renting a Botnet out could net one upwards of 10,000 US dollars.

As of Wednesday, June 25, external communications with the nation have still not been restored.

Would it be wrong for me to point out that the Marshall Islands were also where we tested the Nuclear Bomb? Recently it came out that the US was working on developing a "Carpet Bombing" technique for shutting down a nations IT infrastructure. What motivation would any individual or group have at shutdown a national infrastructure?
I Believe this may be the first in an unfortunate series of internet militarization tests.