May 20, 2026

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

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  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...