alt Hacker News> GitHub saw a 58% year-over-year increase in the number of incidents, reaching 109 reported cases: > 17 of them were classified as major, leading to over 100 hours of total disruption. > April stood out as the most turbulent month, with incidents accumulating to 330 hours and 6 minutes.
https://gitprotect.io/blog/devops-threats-unwrapped-mid-year...
That's from 2025 but it continued getting even worse this year.
I will say, to their credit, there has been a ~25% yoy commit increase since the introduction of AI. That's a pretty significant jump on an already popular site, at the same time they're supposed to be training models for search and other features. I think most sites that see that sort of increase will experience increased downtime