The hacker claimed to successfully steal 63.2GB of Microsoft source code from GitHub
Hacking has been the biggest damage in the digital age - the internet. Any business, organization or individual can become a victim of data breach. An anonymous hacker recently announced that he successfully stole 63.2GB of Microsoft source code from GitHub - the largest online code sharing and storage platform in the world.
Specifically, this hacker posted detailed segments of content allegedly originating from a huge private GitHub repository with up to 63.2 GB of Microsoft, with the most recent access being March 28, 2020. It is known that this is also the hacker who successfully broke into the system of Indonesian conglomerate Tokopedia - the largest e-commerce platform "country of thousands of islands" not long ago, causing the personal data of millions of people. User is affected.

Screen capture of the directory listing of the files posted by the hacker showing the output containing the source code of Azure, Office and some other Windows runtimes from Microsoft.

Information about this serious data theft has now been confirmed by twitter account Under the Breach - a service to monitor and prevent global data breaches:

Although the scale of the hack is enormous, according to experts, the possibility of Mcrosoft's "secrets" leaking is not high. Microsoft repositories on GitHub are often designed to be accessible to everyone, even in private mode. In addition, Microsoft regularly implements rigorous testing and code scanning procedures to minimize any risks. It is known that Microsoft is implanting the "secret" of Windows in an internal Git repository with a huge size, up to 300GB.
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