Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-06-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Code Spaces
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service,Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Code Spaces, a code-hosting service  abruptly closes after someone gains unauthorized access to its Amazon Web Service account and deletes most of the customer data. The company refused to pay a ransom after being extorted via a DDoS attack.