Back in 2009 when it happened to bitbucket, this was afaik due to hosting a particular project (hurting bitbucket was a side effect of hurting this particular p

Back in 2009 when it happened to bitbucket, this was afaik due to hosting a particular project (hurting bitbucket was a side effect of hurting this particular project, some communities seems to be happy to resolve issues with DDoS attacks...).