A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.
Bleeping Computer

New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token

Internal source code and data belonging to The New York Times was leaked on the 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's GitHub repositories in January 2024, The Times confirmed to ...
Bleeping Computer

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Update May 21: GitHub has now linked this breach to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack and says the employee installed a malicious version of the Nx Console extension. GitHub has confirmed that ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software ...

Hackers breach GitHub and access 3,800 internal repositories now listed for sale

GitHub has said it found about 3,800 internal repositories accessed in the breach and stressed that these contained its own code rather than customer projects. The ...