GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories

GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said in a series of posts on X that it has “no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories,” but noted its investigation was ongoing. GitHub said it “detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension,” referring to a plugin for Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor that developers use for programming.