Wall Street Journal: The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new account registrations as they dealt with the chaos it had caused, operators of the service said.
…While the incident caused minor harm overall, it demonstrated the capabilities of these agents, said Sydney Von Arx, the chief executive of Nightingale Collective, a not-for-profit organization that helped uncover the attack.
“They can escape from the internet and wreak havoc,” she said…