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TechCrunch May 20, 2026 at 13:25 Startups Rising Hot

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.

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May 20, 2026 at 13:43 Hacker News

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

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May 20, 2026 at 13:25 TechCrunch

GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

The code hosting giant GitHub said it was investigating a breach but said there was no evidence of customer data theft.

May 20, 2026 at 08:05 SecurityLab

4000 закрытых репозиториев и ценник в 50 тысяч долларов. TeamPCP утверждает, что украла внутренний код GitHub

Trivy, Checkmarx, OpenAI и теперь GitHub. Цепочка громких атак TeamPCP пополнилась крупнейшим именем.

May 20, 2026 at 04:12 Hacker News

GitHub Compromised

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May 20, 2026 at 00:01 Hacker News

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

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