GitHub says it notified all organizations believed to have had data stolen from their private repositories by attackers abusing compromised OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI.

GitHub revealed details tied to last week’s incident where hackers, using stolen OAuth tokens, downloaded data from private repositories.

GitHub now officially requires token-based authentication for its command line interface, third-party apps, and services that access Git repositories hosted on the platform.

GitHub has recently moved to a new format for all of its tokens, including personal access, OAuth access, user-to-server and server-to-server, and refresh tokens. As GitHub engineer Heather Harvey ...

GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts.

Developers from hundreds of companies have included access tokens for their Slack accounts in public projects on GitHub, putting their teams' internal chats and other data at risk.

GitHub Actions Secrets example One of the ongoing challenges DevOps professionals face when developing continuous integration workflows that integrate with disparate systems is how to protect that ...

Build artifacts generated by GitHub Actions often contain access tokens that can be abused by attackers to push malicious code into projects or compromise cloud infrastructure.

Nx supply chain attack on Aug 26, 2025 leaked 2,349 secrets via npm packages, risking GitHub and cloud accounts.

One of the key benefits to the Bitbucket App Password or the GitHub Access Token is that a user can receive administrative access to Git repositories, but have no rights at all to scripted pipelines, ...