- 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.
Didn’t read the article – but why are they mentioning “freelancers” specifically? Is there some kind of feature on GitHub to better promote yourself as a freelancer?
I assume since the freelancers are affected by the hack they were informed by the Times.