After detecting the attack, it requested helped from Akamai Prolexic, a service that mitigates such incidents by routing traffic through its larger network and also blocking malicious requests. In this case, GitHub faced a whopping 1.35 terabits per second of traffic, which caused its service to go down for a total of 10 minutes.
On February 28, GitHub found its code hosting platform hit by what’s believed to be the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded – and lived to tell the tale.Ī DDoS attack is one of the most common methods employed by hackers to take websites down: it involves bombarding sites with more traffic than they can handle, so as to overwhelm their servers and cause enough crashes to take the site offline temporarily.
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