Hacker deletes all data from source code hoster Code Spaces

The Code Spaces service, which provides a source code storage platform to developers, is closing its doors. That happens after a hacker gained access to the Amazon Web Service account and deleted almost all data, including backups.

Code Spaces was a web-based git and subversion host, which in turn used Amazon Web Services. The service announces on its website that it came under fire last Tuesday from a DDO attack. This happened more than once, but this time the service found that an unauthorized person had gained access to its Amazon EC2 admin panel and left requests to be contacted. It turned out to be an extortion attempt: Code Spaces would have to pay for the ddos ​​attack to end.

The administrators of the hosting service then changed the password for the administrator panel, but the hacker turned out to be prepared for this. He regained access through backup logins, after which he began deleting Amazon Elastic Block Store snapshots and instances, Simple Storage Service buckets, and virtual machines. “In summary, most of our data, backups, machine configurations and offsite backups have been partially or completely deleted,” Code Spaces lists.

The service has thrown in the towel because of the expected costs and because reliability has been compromised. The platform advertised with the claim that a ‘full recovery plan’ was in place. Code Spaces says it will support customers in exporting leftover data.

In recent months, more services have been extorted by DDOs. Feedly and Evernote also recently suffered from similar attacks.