{"id":6198,"date":"2026-05-20T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:00:29","slug":"github-confirms-cyberattack-linked-to-employee-device-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6198","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 href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6198\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}