SVN and Git announced that Code Spaces has been taken down after a hacker took control of the back-end and destroyed the code logs in retaliation for administrators trying to regain control of the website.
According to a statement posted on the website – which is now down – hackers have taken control of Code Spaces and attempted to demand a ransom for it. When administrators tried to regain control of the system, the hackers destroyed files in retaliation. As Code Spaces states: “most data, backups, system configuration and offsite backups have been partially or completely deleted.”
During this process, at least two game developers have lost code: Ian Stocker of Magical Time Bean, the creator of Escape Goat 2, has lost access to previous revisions of his project, which were stored on the service and have now been destroyed.
