Github being DDoS'd

[BobsLawnService]

And right before a major deadline. Grrrrrr.

Timing is everything.

 

[AthenianOwl]

And right before a major deadline. Grrrrrr.

Timing is everything.

Ouch

 

[Fulcrum29]

It is a shame to see a DDoS attack on Github.

 

[shauntir]

Now it makes sense why I was getting a 443 error.

 

[Budza]

Any idea why they'd be targeted? Strange...

Also caused some *** here, on an otherwise good Friday afternoon

 

[semaphore]

Traffic was being redirected from Baidu. All our circleci builds were fried

 

[roguemat]

What is the motivation behind this? Is GitHub secretly murding puppies or something? It just seems like there are tons of better targets.

Also, I'm still seeing this now.

 

[semaphore]

What is the motivation behind this? Is GitHub secretly murding puppies or something? It just seems like there are tons of better targets.

Also, I'm still seeing this now.

Lots of big organisations host code, perhaps there is an entity which some people are disgruntled against.

 

[w1z4rd]

And right before a major deadline. Grrrrrr.

Timing is everything.

You can thank Chinese government for that.

 

[w1z4rd]

What is the motivation behind this? Is GitHub secretly murding puppies or something? It just seems like there are tons of better targets.

Also, I'm still seeing this now.

They host a website that China finds offensive. Specifically this one: https://en.greatfire.org/

 

[slvR]

How is someone able to DDOS such a huge traffic site like github?

Lots of bandwidth