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GitHub just confirmed hackers broke into its own code through a poisoned coding tool — slipping in on a developer’s laptop without anyone noticing for days

Sometime in early 2025, an attacker slipped malicious code into a Visual Studio Code extension, and a GitHub employee ...
Tech Times

GitHub CISO Names Nx Console as Root of 3,800-Repo Breach: OpenAI, Grafana Also Hit

GitHub CISO Alexis Wales confirmed Thursday that a poisoned build of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension — live on ...
Infosecurity Magazine

GitHub Breach Traced to Malicious 'Nx Console' VS Code Extension

A threat actor compromised an Nx developer and posed as a legitimate maintainer to publish a malicious extension on Visual ...
The Hacker News

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension

GitHub lost 3,800 internal repos after poisoned Nx Console update exposed developer credentials and supply-chain risk.
InfoWorld

GitHub admits major source code leak after 3,800 internal repositories breached

Microsoft’s GitHub has suffered what appears to be its biggest ever security breach after confirming that attackers ...