• The New York Times suffered a breach of its GitHub repositories in January 2024, leading to the theft and leak of sensitive personal information of freelancers.
  • Attackers accessed the repos using exposed credentials, but the breach did not impact the newspaper’s internal systems or operations.
  • The stolen data, amounting to 273GB, was leaked on 4chan and included various personal details of contributors as well as information related to assignments and source code, including the viral Wordle game.
  • just another devA
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    85 months ago

    Please point out where it states that Microsoft leaked it, rather than the more likely case of NYT leaking their credentials.

      • just another devA
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        55 months ago

        As The Times told BleepingComputer last week, the attackers used exposed credentials to hack into the newspaper’s GitHub repos.

        It explicitly says the credentials were leaked. If you’re really going to insist the word “hack” implies something else, I’m afraid you’re too far on the spectrum for me to continue this conversation. Cya!

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          I’ve already explained this several times and I won’t do it again. If you’re still confused, scroll up and read again.