I was just blocked from the Codecademy website after doing a code challenge.
The error message I get reads:
The owner of this website (www.codecademy.com) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website.
Did this ever happen to anyone before and what can be the cause of this? Could it be that my computer has been compromised?
Hmmm.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’m sorry you’re running into this issue. I’ll look into it!
@mirja_t I may reach out again via DM to get more details from you so the team can attempt to replicate the error on our end, so keep an eye on your notifications!
Hey @mirja_t, thanks for reporting this! We’ve been trying to track down the orgin of this after we saw some weird reports in our systems. Did this happen after clicking the button to head to the forums with regards answers, or did it happen as soon as you saw pressed submit / saw that ‘you solved it’ page?
I was blocked for about an hour. Then a reload loaded the site normally again.
After the site showed up again I visited the code challenge again and clicked “submit codechallenge” after the test passed. That’s when it happened the first time – and that’s where it happened again now. Currently I’m blocked again.
Here is the replication of the error
I clicked “submit codechallenge” and this page was shown:
After some time this alert appeared:
I closed the page and reloaded another tab with a Codecademy lesson that was open (in Chrome – Mac) and this screen showed up (again):
I can’t access the site from any browser on this computer.
Super helpful thank you! The copy code button also likely being related was a clue we didn’t have before. We’ll be trying to fix this next sprint (that is, over the next fortnight) and hopefully can get it back up before too long. I really appreciate your help and patience. 
