{"id":217298,"date":"2026-05-20T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/compromised-coding-tool-helped-hackers-breach-thousands-of-github-repositories\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:20:09","slug":"compromised-coding-tool-helped-hackers-breach-thousands-of-github-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/compromised-coding-tool-helped-hackers-breach-thousands-of-github-repositories\/","title":{"rendered":"Compromised coding tool helped hackers breach thousands of GitHub repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/github-hacked-repository-data\/820722\/\">Compromised coding tool helped hackers breach thousands of GitHub repositories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/github-hacked-repository-data\/820722\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/github-hacked-repository-data\/820722\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 11:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>Hackers stole data from thousands of GitHub repositories, the code-hosting giant said on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub\u2019s internal repositories (such as our customers\u2019 enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity,\u201d the company said in a post on X.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the company confirmed that attackers had compromised roughly 3,800 repositories after a GitHub employee used a malware-infected Visual Studio Code extension.<br \/>\n\u201cWe continue to analyze logs, validate secret rotation, and monitor for any follow-on activity,\u201d GitHub said.<\/p>\n<p>Code repositories have become a frequent target of hackers seeking to poison popular software packages with malware. Over the past two years, malicious actors have compromised the data-compression tool XZ Utils, the vulnerability scanner Trivy and more than 500 packages on the JavaScript registry npm. On Tuesday, two cybersecurity firms disclosed another wave of npm supply-chain compromises.<br \/>\nGitHub did not provide key information about the attack, including the identity of the threat actor responsible for the breach. But the cybercrime group TeamPCP claimed credit for the attack in a dark-web post advertising the stolen data.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compromised coding tool helped hackers breach thousands of GitHub repositories https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/github-hacked-repository-data\/820722\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20 11:16:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/Pz0wCCbGZgiKNuUp_nPu7Kzg0-PgGKvS5guRiMA7jx4\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0yMDMyNzA5ODM5LmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,32,34,27],"class_list":["post-217298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-malware","tag-threat-actor","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217300,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217298\/revisions\/217300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}