GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories.
The code hosting and sharing giant said in a series of posts on X that it has “no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories,” but noted its investigation was ongoing. GitHub said it “detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension,” referring to a plugin for Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor that developers use for programming.
