User forked UnrealEngine on GitHub and gave write and subscribed everyone ~100K

I got an email about being added to this repo a few weeks ago, thought nothing of it and just assumed it was a bug that I got subscribed to notifications. This morning I got the same email, thought nothing of it again.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45512231/ShareX/chrome_2...

Half an hour ago, an email drops in my GitHub folder and I see a couple of comments appear on the page before exploding!

I'm still receiving emails as I write this... 100 so far!

The chaos ended when the user (teardemon) presumably deleted their account (the repo and account are both 404s)

Screenshot of the chaos.

http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM

Notice from Unreal: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?118366

Nobody has access anymore. The repo and the user (teardemon) are both gone.

404 note: You have to be logged in, and have previously been a member of the UnrealEngine repo to see this and not get a 404... I think.

I also saw this a while ago as southclaw says. There were also a few other repo's I got email notifications from Github about my having been automatically subscribed. I figured the first of today was a copycat of the one a while ago. I was surprised more people didn't do it then. The later ones today also seemed to be copycats of the first one today.

Not sure how Github should solve this, but they should solve this.

Edit (22:45 BST): It also now looks like teardemon has deleted his Github account. https://github.com/teardemon/ Best to look at Null-Set's screenshot http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM

I don't understand... when he forks the repository, why did everybody watching the original one get set to watching the new repository? When I create a fork, that doesn't happens.

And this is why my inbox blew up...

404

and this is why my inbox blew up :(