Meta Confirms Security Breach: Hackers Infiltrate GitHub Repositories

Meta confirmed a major security breach involving its GitHub repositories, in which employee data and source code were stolen.

Meta has confirmed that it experienced a significant security breach, in which cyber attackers infiltrated its repositories on the software development platform GitHub, news outlets India Today and CyberSecurityNews reported.

According to the reports, the hackers stole data belonging to approximately 1,500 people, with India Today specifying that the victims were company employees. In addition, CyberSecurityNews reported that the hackers also obtained source code stored within the breached repositories.

At this stage, it has not been disclosed how the attackers managed to breach the systems, and further details regarding the investigation into the incident and the full scope of the exposed data have not yet been released.