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GitHub Confirms Breach, 4K Internal Repos Stolen

GitHub confirmed a data breach this week involving the theft of thousands of developer code repositories. One threat actor — TeamPCP — took credit.

GitHub confirmed today it was breached via an attacker that stole thousands of internal repositories.

TeamPCP, a financially motivated threat actor that has relentlessly targeted the open source ecosystem, yesterday published a post to a prominent Dark Web data breach forum that it would sell internal source code and organization data stolen from GitHub. This totaled "~4,000 repos of private code," according to the advertisement, and was for sale to an interested buyer. More here

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