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GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that attackers gained unauthorized access to its internal repositories after compromising an employee device through a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension. The Microsoft-owned platform detected and contained the compromise, removed the malicious extension, isolated the affected endpoint, and began incident response immediately.
The company said its current assessment is that the breach involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only. Customer repositories, enterprise organisations, and user data stored outside GitHub’s internal systems are not believed to have been affected.
The Scale of the Breach
GitHub confirmed that the attacker’s claims of approximately 3,800 internal repositories are directionally consistent with its own investigation. Threat group TeamPCP has claimed responsibility for the brea
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