Meta Confirms GitHub Data Breach, Hackers Expose Personal Information of 1500 Employees
- Meta confirmed that hackers used a stolen employee login to access some GitHub repositories, while its internal systems and networks were not breached.
- The incident exposed information linked to about 1,500 people, and Meta began notifying affected individuals.
- About 99% of the accessed material was business information and source code, while roughly 1% was personal information mistakenly uploaded to GitHub.
- Meta blocked the attackers, offered affected people monitoring services, and added controls to prevent future data uploads.
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Meta confirms GitHub data breach, hackers expose personal information of 1500 employees
The company said most of the accessed data was business-related and that its internal systems were not compromised. Meta has revoked unauthorised access, notified affected individuals and introduced additional security measures.
Meta reports a data leak of approximately 1,500 people after hacking GitHub repositories using employee credentials.
Hackers who infiltrated Meta's GitHub repositories gained access to source code and personal data using a single employee's stolen password.
Meta has reported the exposure of the personal data of some 1,500 people, mostly employed in the United States, following access by an external group of cybercriminals to their GitHub repositories.
(Adnkronos) " An external group has broken into some GitHub repository of Meta using the credentials stolen from an employee, managing to access portions of source code and a limited amount of personal information. The intrusion, identified a few weeks ago by security technicians, led to the start of formal notifications addressed to about [...] The article Attack to Meta via stolen credentials: subtracted code and employee data on GitHub comes …
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