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Jess Kinghorn

Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension'

The Github Logo on a phone in front of the words "Let's build from here".

GitHub, arguably the place for developers to store and share code, has been the target of a cyberattack. The Microsoft-owned platform reported on Tuesday that its internal repositories experienced unauthorised access, although it does not appear to have exposed customer information outside of that.

"Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only," GitHub shared most recently on X, "The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far."

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