Code Spaces

Business model

Cloud-based Git project hosting and collaboration tools for software developers, built on AWS infrastructure.

In brief

Ran a code-hosting service entirely on Amazon Web Services, marketing itself on "full redundancy" backups. An attacker launched a DDoS attack, gained access to the company's AWS EC2 control panel through what was likely a social engineering or brute-force attack, and demanded a r…

See the What Happened tab for the full account.