DataTables.net Cyber Attack and Service Outage Incident Review - July 2025
By
cristoperb
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
DataTables.net experienced a major outage on July 29, 2025, caused by a cyber attack that took down the main site, documentation, support forum, and most critically, the DataTables CDN. The article serves as a post-incident review detailing the attack timeline, impact assessment, technical details of the breach, immediate response actions, and lessons learned for future security improvements. The author provides transparency about the incident and outlines steps taken to restore services and prevent similar attacks.
Key quotes
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This took out the main site with its examples and documentation, the support forum, and the sub-domains, including, most importantly, the DataTables CDN
Digging into such an event, when something has gone so wrong, is not a fun thing to do, but it is important for me to do so I can learn what I can do better in future
for you so you can understand what happened and the challenges faced, and for the community so we can try to stop this sort of thing
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