2019-7-8 10:40 |
The GitHub account of Canonical Ltd. , the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, was hacked over the weekend on July 6. While the hacker’s identity remains unknown, they managed to compromise the account’s credentials to create 11 new empty repositories.
The repositories were named “CAN_GOT_HAXXD. ” “We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities,” Ubuntu Security team said in a statement. Canonical said it has removed the compromised account from the Canonical organization in GitHub and that it’s still investigating the…
This story continues at The Next Web
Or just read more coverage about: GitHub
. origin »
Chilean Unit of Account (CLF) на Currencies.ru
|
