Meta Says Hackers Took Code, Personal Data of 1,500 in GitHub Breach
Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services.
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Meta is notifying roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, that their personal information was impacted after hackers got into some of the company’s GitHub repositories. The intrusion was detected a few weeks ago. According to the tech giant, an outside group gained access to the repositories using an employee’s stolen credentials. Meta’s security team shut down the attackers’ access and brought in GitHub and law enforcement. Notifications to the impacted individuals started going out on Tuesday. Meta told SecurityWeek that 99% of the data the hackers took was business data, in…
