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https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
'In mid-to-late June 2026, Read the Docs experienced the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in our history. At its peak, our infrastructure was hit with over 5.5 million requests per minute, about 100 times our normal baseline traffic.'
Nearly 120 terabyte of data was transferred.
I really wonder *why* someone would attack Read the Docs, especially when all of their docs are made available for AI scrapers.
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
Paranoid theory: AI companies attack what works (technical writing) so that AI can take over. ;-)
Seriously though, the recent attack seems to me to be sophisticated and meant to bring financial chaos to Write the Docs.
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https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
'In mid-to-late June 2026, Read the Docs experienced the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in our history. At its peak, our infrastructure was hit with over 5.5 million requests per minute, about 100 times our normal baseline traffic.'
Nearly 120 terabyte of data was transferred.
I really wonder *why* someone would attack Read the Docs, especially when all of their docs are made available for AI scrapers.
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
Paranoid theory: AI companies attack what works (technical writing) so that AI can take over. ;-)
Seriously though, the recent attack seems to me to be sophisticated and meant to bring financial chaos to Write the Docs.
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https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
'In mid-to-late June 2026, Read the Docs experienced the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in our history. At its peak, our infrastructure was hit with over 5.5 million requests per minute, about 100 times our normal baseline traffic.'
Nearly 120 terabyte of data was transferred.
I really wonder *why* someone would attack Read the Docs, especially when all of their docs are made available for AI scrapers.
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
Paranoid theory: AI companies attack what works (technical writing) so that AI can take over. ;-)
Seriously though, the recent attack seems to me to be sophisticated and meant to bring financial chaos to Write the Docs.
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https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
'In mid-to-late June 2026, Read the Docs experienced the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in our history. At its peak, our infrastructure was hit with over 5.5 million requests per minute, about 100 times our normal baseline traffic.'
Nearly 120 terabyte of data was transferred.
I really wonder *why* someone would attack Read the Docs, especially when all of their docs are made available for AI scrapers.
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
Paranoid theory: AI companies attack what works (technical writing) so that AI can take over. ;-)
Seriously though, the recent attack seems to me to be sophisticated and meant to bring financial chaos to Write the Docs.
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https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/
'In mid-to-late June 2026, Read the Docs experienced the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in our history. At its peak, our infrastructure was hit with over 5.5 million requests per minute, about 100 times our normal baseline traffic.'
Nearly 120 terabyte of data was transferred.
I really wonder *why* someone would attack Read the Docs, especially when all of their docs are made available for AI scrapers.
https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024/07/ai-crawlers-abuse/
Paranoid theory: AI companies attack what works (technical writing) so that AI can take over. ;-)
Seriously though, the recent attack seems to me to be sophisticated and meant to bring financial chaos to Write the Docs.