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The Economic Times
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Microsoft's GitHub confirms cyberattack involving unauthorised access of nearly 3,800 repositories

Microsoft's GitHub has confirmed a cyberattack involving unauthorised access to some of its internal repositories after a threat actor claimed it had stolen and was attempting to sell company data online.

In a series of posts, GitHub said it had “detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension,” on Tuesday.

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