Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-08-25 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: Code repository Github is the victim of a massive DDoS attack. The site is likely targeted  because of software projects hosted on the site that have allowed Chinese Internet users to bypass the Great Firewall's packet filtering and inspection tools.