GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension

May 20, 2026 - 21:30
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GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension

  It is an unsettling irony when the world’s largest code-hosting platform becomes the victim of its own ecosystem. GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that a threat actor exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories after compromising an employee’s device through a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, marking one of the most significant breaches the Microsoft-owned company has ever […]



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