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New York Times warns freelancers of GitHub repo data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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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.

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 50 points 4 months ago

GitHub sucks with private repositories anyways. If any company needs a sizable source control utility, just hosting their own GitLab instance will be way cheaper and safer than entrusting it to Microsoft and paying an unnecessary enterprise rate to GitHub.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 months ago

GitLab sucks and has been getting worse. Their system requirements are high because they can’t figure out how to make efficient code.

I’ve since signed up but haven’t used GitHub, so I can’t claim if it’s better or worse. But I’m definitely looking for an alternative

[-] numbermess@fedia.io 13 points 4 months ago

I've been pretty happy with Gitea for small projects. I had to learn how to use it for because a client was already using it and wanted to upgrade to a more recent version. I was brought in just to make sure that it would work without introducing disaster, and that was my introduction to it. It's nearly completely brainless to run as a docker container and it seems to work just fine.

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