New York Times source code stolen and leaked on 4chan
The New York Times' source code was stolen and leaked on 4chan. An exposed GitHub token was used in the theft, and The New York Times subsequently responded to the leak and assessed its impact as limited.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- The New York Times
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Source code leaked; specific scale unknown
- Cause / method
- Theft of source code using an exposed GitHub token
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that New York Times source code had been leaked on 4chan.
- It emerged that an exposed GitHub token had been used to steal the source code.
- The New York Times responded to the source code leak and assessed its impact as limited.
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