[ztratar]

Probably a DDoS from a foreign actor.

[kornish]

What are the main motivations for foreign actors to DDoS GitHub?

[laksjd]

There have in the past been some ddos attacks that were most likely by a foreign actor, but they were directed against individual repo's that contained material that the attacker wanted to suppress.

See http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...