GitHub is recorded as the largest cyber-attack ever known in history.

Earlier this week the web hosting service had revealed this cyber attack.The firm confirmed that it had been subjected to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attack on February 28 where it was last recorded. This Deadliest cyber attack is A DDoS attack which is mainly designed to attack websites with enough traffic to put them offline. GitHub later disclosed, that the attackers took over a memory system known as ‘memcache’ and escalated the complete volume of that data by 51,000 times which was way beyond imagination.According to the blog posted This means that every byte of data which was sent by the attacker, there was almost 51KB sent to the target. The most astonishing news was that the traffic hitting the platform at 1.35 TB per second at its peak level. The Blog also stated that the attack derived from over a thousand different autonomous systems across tens of thousands of eccentric endpoints.During this incident they had sought help from Akamai, that was a cloud service provider, which had taken over some of its traffic and provided additional network capacity. The attack almost took place for the whole 8min, at no point there was any risk for the customer's data.