{"id":10937,"date":"2014-06-18T23:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jun\/19\/code-spaces-rip-code-hosting-provider-ceases-trading-after-well-orchestrated-ddos-attack\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T23:52:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:52:32","slug":"code-spaces-rip-code-hosting-provider-ceases-trading-after-well-orchestrated-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/code-spaces-rip-code-hosting-provider-ceases-trading-after-well-orchestrated-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Spaces RIP: Code hosting provider ceases trading after \u201cwell-orchestrated\u201d DDoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Code Spaces, the web-based SVN and Git hosting provider, has ceased trading after revealing a devastating DDoS attack which wiped its cloudy data would cost too much to both resolve and keep the company going.<\/p>\n<p>The unauthorised user gained access to the company&rsquo;s EC2 control panel, created a series of backup logins and randomly deleted items to the extent where most of Code Spaces&rsquo; data had disappeared, with no backups in place. The attacker had also demanded a large sum of money to stop the DDoS, similar to Feedly&rsquo;s attack earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Code Spaces will not be able to operate beyond this point,&rdquo; the company said in a statement. &ldquo;The cost of resolving this issue to date and the expected cost of refunding customers who have been left without the service they paid for will put Code Spaces in a [sic] irreversible position both financially and in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Code Spaces, the web-based SVN and Git hosting provider, has ceased trading after revealing a devastating DDoS attack which wiped its cloudy data would cost too much to both resolve and keep the company going.<br \/>\nThe unauthorised user gained access to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}