The New York Times notified an undisclosed number of contributors that some of their sensitive personal information was stolen and leaked after its GitHub repositories were breached in January 2024. As The Times told BleepingComputer last week, the attackers used exposed credentials to hack into the newspaper's GitHub repos. "The New York Times recently communicated to some of our contributors regarding an incident that resulted in the exposure of some of their personal information," a Times spokesperson told BleepingComputer. 273GB of data stolen in GitHub repo hackAs BleepingComputer reported over the weekend, a 273GB torrent file containing The New York Times' stolen data was leaked on the 4chan message board on Thursday. "Basically all source code belonging to The New York Times Company, 270GB," the 4chan forum post said.

Source: New York Times June 14, 2024 02:40 UTC