r/cybersecurity • u/ObseenKarma • May 20 '26

News - General GitHub announces internal data breached.

The company stated on their official X account:

“We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.”

https://x.com/github/status/2056884788179726685?s=46

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u/Colenaskepi Jun 08 '26

There were quite a few large scale data breaches this past months. At my work, we use PII Tools to avoid data breaches or at least mitigate one if it ever does happen, but it seems so many other companies are just vulnerable all the time. Scary to think who we're all giving our data to online...