Github DDOS'ed

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sajaki
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Github DDOS'ed

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Today – major interruption occurred

01:33 pm PST
"We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, working hard to restore service"

01:17 pm PST
We're experiencing some connectivity issues at the moment. GitHub.com is currently unavailable while we resolve this.

01:05 pm PST
We are investigating issues with GitHub.com
Why would anyone ddos Github ? makes me a sad panda :(

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Re: Github DDOS'ed

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Why would anybody DDOS most sites? Welcome to the world of Internet thugs.

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