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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

  • Duncan Riley--SiliconANGLE News
  • published date: 2026-05-20 22:39:18 UTC

GitHub Inc. has confirmed that hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of its internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform disclosed late Tuesday. The breach wa…

GitHub Inc. has confirmed that hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of its internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-ow… [+5325 chars]