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Gentoo Github Data Breach (2018)

Gentoo Github

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Disclosed

June 28, 2018

2829 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

The Gentoo Linux project has finished investigating the hacking last week of its GitHub-hosted package repository, an incident that resulted in attackers distributing malicious code to users. The point of entry turned out to be a weak admin password that was probably guessed thanks to data stolen from another website.

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