GitHub Breach Affects 3,800 Repos

GitHub has announced that approximately 3,800 internal repositories were compromised after an employee installed a malicious extension on the Visual Studio Code development environment, which led to the leaking of the company's internal data. The company was able to quickly detect the incident, remove the malicious extension, and isolate the affected device, with no evidence of user data outside the compromised repositories being affected. The group TeamPCP claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they gained access to source code and hacked nearly 4,000 repositories, offering the stolen data for sale for $50,000. This attack comes amid growing concerns over malicious extensions on the Visual Studio Code marketplace.

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