{"id":27216,"date":"2026-05-21T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=27216"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:16:46","slug":"github-admits-main-supply-code-leak-after-3800-inner-repositories-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=27216","title":{"rendered":"GitHub admits main supply code leak after 3,800 inner repositories breached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4174734-0-02479300-1779291914-shutterstock_2392299743.jpg?quality=50&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cYesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an worker gadget involving a poisoned VS [Visual Studio] Code extension. We eliminated the malicious extension model, remoted the endpoint, and commenced incident response instantly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/github\/status\/2056949168208552080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GitHub stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur present evaluation is that the exercise concerned exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories solely. The attacker\u2019s present claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally in line with our investigation to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"jwPlayer--floatingContainer\" role=\"complementary\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>GitHub added: \u201cWe proceed to research logs, validate secret rotation, and monitor for any follow-on exercise. We&#8217;ll take further motion because the investigation warrants.\u201d The corporate promised to publish a full incident report as soon as it had accomplished its investigations.<\/p>\n<p>That determine tallied with an earlier declare by the TeamPCP menace group that it had breached 4,000 repos, full with a menace to leak the stolen code if no purchaser prepared to pay no less than \u201c50k\u201d was discovered. The group backed up its declare by posting a listing of the breached repositories on the LimeWire content material sharing platform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an worker gadget involving a poisoned VS [Visual Studio] Code extension. We eliminated the malicious extension model, remoted the endpoint, and commenced incident response instantly,\u201d GitHub stated. \u201cOur present evaluation is that the exercise concerned exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories solely. The attacker\u2019s present claims of ~3,800 repositories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cloud-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27217,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27216\/revisions\/27217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}