46 points | by punchmesan an hour ago
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FYI, Gitbook was made by the team behing friendco.de, which they killed without any announcement years ago.
https://www.gitbook.com/status/security-incident-2026-11-03
"GitBook has been the target of a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents."
Add it to the list, I guess.
Oof that formatting is rougher than I thought. Will try to clean it up after I'm done reconfiguring gitbook...
new lines between bullets, only italics available, not markdown
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.
FYI, Gitbook was made by the team behing friendco.de, which they killed without any announcement years ago.
https://www.gitbook.com/status/security-incident-2026-11-03
"GitBook has been the target of a sophisticated, highly targeted attack using AI agents."
Add it to the list, I guess.
Oof that formatting is rougher than I thought. Will try to clean it up after I'm done reconfiguring gitbook...
new lines between bullets, only italics available, not markdown
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.