Access credentials for some 500 GitHub accounts leaked
In July, the leak of access credentials for some 500 GitHub accounts and authentication keys for some 30 companies was reported. South Korean police first detected the leak and launched an investigation. Concerns were raised about further personal data breaches stemming from leaked access tokens for development environments.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Access credentials for some 500 GitHub accounts and authentication keys for some 30 companies leaked
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organization’s official website or app.
- If you’ve suffered harm, report it. Call 118 (no area code) for privacy violations, contact the police for financial losses, and apply for dispute mediation to seek compensation.Personal Information Infringement Report Center ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
Timeline
- It was reported that police had detected the leak of access credentials for some 500 GitHub accounts and launched a data leak investigation.
- Security issues in development environments were raised following the leak of numerous GitHub access tokens.
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