Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-03-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: GitHub
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: GitHub, the largest public code repository in the world, battles against the largest DDoS attack in the site's history. The attack targets pages hosting anti-surveillance tools. Suspects are directed to China.