GitHub cleans up after cyber-attack

US coding site responds to flood of traffic following hacking attack, with reports claiming Chinese search engine Baidu was source

US coding site GitHub said it was deflecting most of the traffic from a days-long cyber-attack that had caused intermittent outages on the social coding site, with the Wall Street Journal citing China as the source of the attack.

"Eighty-seven hours in, our mitigation is deflecting most attack traffic. We're aware of intermittent issues and continue to adapt our response," a tweet from the GitHub Status account said on Sunday.