Gitbook Breached

60 points | by punchmesan 1 hour ago

8 comments

  • SamyPesse 26 minutes ago
    GitBook’s CTO here

    We have been dealing with a security attack since yesterday. Our team has been all hands on deck since the start, and we took a large portion of our services offline to prioritize user security.

    Our service is progressively coming back online (most of it already is), and we are actively monitoring the situation.

    We’ll continue to actively keep our users updated through emails, Slack, and our status page as we monitor the situation and learn more.

    • latchkey 21 minutes ago
      After turning on 2FA, the page doesn't update to say it is turned on. It still has a configure button. Reloading the page fixes this.
      • gkoberger 24 minutes ago
        Good luck... this isn't easy, so best of luck to you and the team.
      • manytimesaway 1 hour ago
        FYI, Gitbook was made by the team behing friendco.de, which they killed without any announcement years ago.
        • SamyPesse 23 minutes ago
          I’m genuinely sorry the end of friendco.de impacted you. It was 12-13 years ago; the service had little usage at the time, and we probably didn’t handle the end perfectly. I don’t recall exactly, but I can assure you that the team today is more experienced.
          • viccis 22 minutes ago
            Not really relevant here.
          • altbdoor 24 minutes ago
            Mentioned this 5h ago, but this post definitely fleshes out more details.

            https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50351061

            • petecooper 1 hour ago
            • aliasxneo 1 hour ago
              "GitBook has been the target of a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents."

              Add it to the list, I guess.

              • nsoam 32 minutes ago
                Is this what they mean when they talk about accountability laundering?

                Oh, you see, we had the best security ever, but they used AI agents, and there's no defence for that, you can't secure a system against those spooky AI agents.

              • punchmesan 1 hour ago
                Oof that formatting is rougher than I thought. Will try to clean it up after I'm done reconfiguring gitbook...
                • verdverm 1 hour ago
                  new lines between bullets, only italics available, not markdown
                • latchkey 25 minutes ago
                  One thing that would be appreciated are more details in these sorts of reports.

                  "the attacker gained unauthorized access to some of our infrastructure credentials"

                  How? Which infrastructure?

                  • SamyPesse 3 minutes ago
                    We’ll provide details in a long post-mortem. For now, it was important to notify our users as early as possible.
                  • philipwhiuk 1 hour ago
                    This is the public disclosure: https://www.gitbookstatus.com/incidents/01M6FXDDGQRWHMYYWXY2...

                    Note that the summary at the top of https://www.gitbookstatus.com at time of writing does not mention the unauthorized access and the incident details does not mention the contents disclosed above.