{"id":110789,"date":"2026-05-20T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/github-confirms-cyberattack-linked-to-employee-device-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:37:12","slug":"github-confirms-cyberattack-linked-to-employee-device-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/github-confirms-cyberattack-linked-to-employee-device-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub confirms cyberattack linked to employee device breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub has confirmed a cyberattack after a threat actor claimed to be selling stolen company data. The breach involved unauthorized access to internal repositories via a compromised employee device using a poisoned VS Code extension. GitHub has contained the incident, rotated critical secrets, and is investigating the extent of the exfiltration, which appears to be limited to internal code.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub has confirmed a cyberattack after a threat actor claimed to be selling stolen company data. The breach involved unauthorized access to internal repositories via a compromised employee device using a poisoned VS Code extension. GitHub has contained the incident, rotated critical secrets, and is investigating the extent of the exfiltration, which appears to be&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/github-confirms-cyberattack-linked-to-employee-device-breach\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GitHub confirms cyberattack linked to employee device breach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":110790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}