Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports
An outside group got in with an employee’s stolen credentials, Meta told SecurityWeek. Meta says the personal data, mostly on US staff, should never have been stored on GitHub.
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“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek.
Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are Meta employees in the US, and Meta is now notifying them. Eduard Kovacs reported the breach for SecurityWeek on 13 October.
An outside group got in with an employee’s stolen credentials, Meta told SecurityWeek. Meta detected the intrusion a…
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