GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

GitHub Inc. has confirmed that hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of its internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform disclosed late Tuesday.

The breach was detected on May 19 and traced to a malicious extension that GitHub’s security team found on the employee’s […]

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