So, #GitHub has been hacked.

Own Your Data!

#OwnYourData

@stefano source?
@coldclimate their official profile on X

@coldclimate @stefano https://xcancel.com/i/status/2056949168208552080

"Microsoft’s GitHub was compromised when a Microsoft developer using Microsoft VSCode installed a rogue extension from Microsoft’s VSCode extension library, which is moderated and hosted by Microsoft."

-- CorboDT

GitHub (@github)

1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories. Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately.

Nitter
@dch @coldclimate @stefano all I can say is LOLOL AYY LMAO
dear god, that's the lowest of low-hanging-fruit
@coldclimate yes, apparently all (or at the very least a lot) of their source is up for sale right now 😄

@stefano

@stefano On,y using as a reference / sourcing site.
Hope the others like codeberg grow enormously in near future

https://mastodon.social/@Tweakers/116605753514619915

@stefano

It started when Microsoft bought them.

@stefano And like for cloudflare, aws, your customer won't complain.
@stefano So many auth keys improperly obscured now in the wild...