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This is leaping to a huge conclusion, but you are correct that if this was a Github data breach, this is clearly a much bigger issue. However, if this was the c
by nrmitchi 6y ago
This is leaping to a huge conclusion, but you are correct that if this was a Github data breach, this is clearly a much bigger issue. However, if this was the case, and 1) this "leak" happened on March 28th, and the individual claims to no longer have access to the account, I trust that Github would have proactively communicated with their users about such a large scale event, especially after having fixed it.
This, if true, is almost definitely a compromise and use of a single users' access credentials, which were then rotated (thus the attacked losing access).
I'm not saying that credential stuffing isn't a large-scale problem (I strongly believe that it is, and have even dedicated time to some potential solutions in the past), but jumping from "someone lost their credentials" to "omgz github can't be trusted!" is a bit of a disingenuous leap.