500GB data stolen from GitHub account after the hack
Shiny hunters, a hacking group claims to have stolen over 500 GB data from Microsoft’s GItHub account by gaining full access to its repositories.
An individual from the hacking group told that they were planned to sell them, but now they decided to leak it for free.
It can be said that the breach may have occurred on 28th of March by this year by looking into the file stamps in the leaked files.
As a teaser, the hunters offered 1GB of the files in a hacking forum to the registered members to gain access to access the leaked data by using the site credits.
As some of the files contain text or reference to latelee.org, many of the threat actors do not feel that these data are real.
In the directory, the samples of the private repositories, the stolen data appear in the coded samples, test projects and en Book and other generic items. One of such repositories named wssd cloud agent, a The Rust/WinRT language projection’, and a ‘PowerSweep’ PowerShell project.
Overall, there is nothing to be worry about for the Microsoft as these did not contain any sensitive code for software like Windows or Office.
The Cyber Intelligence firm under the breach, who also saw the leak on the hacker forum, shares that there in this opinion that there is nothing much to be worried about with it. They said that the API keys or passwords could have accidently been left behind in some of the private repositories.
Since the publishing of this story, a Microsoft employee told that the stolen data is legit. The other employees denounced earlier that the leak as fake have deleted their tweets.
