Around the same time
Apple supposedly had some brief outages with iCloud and iMessage around that same time. The former was maybe caused by AWS issues, but they use their own servers for iMessage (and the traffic usually goes direct unless both are behind NATs/firewalls) so there may have been something bigger happening at that time.
Not much of a stretch to suggest it may be somehow related to the situation in Ukraine, i.e. Putin's henchmen doing some quick tests of their ability to knock down western infrastructure if given the order.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
