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GitHub disclosed that attackers accessed its internal repositories after compromising an employee device through a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension. The company said the activity appears limited to GitHub-owned internal repositories, with the attacker’s claim of roughly 3,800 repositories being “directionally consistent” with its investigation. GitHub also said it found no evidence that customers’ own enterprises, organizations or repositories were impacted.

A malicious VS Code extension led to cloned private repositories, reportedly offered for sale on a criminal forum On May 19-20, 2026, GitHub confirmed a security incident affecting its own internal systems. A threat actor self-identifying as TeamPCP, also tracked as UNC6780, compromised an employee’s developer device by way of a malicious Visual Studio Code extension and used that foothold to clone roughly 3,800 of GitHub’s internal repositories.

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