Uber drops GitHub through code-sharing platform's part in massive data breach

Tom Allen
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Uber skipped multifactor authentication

Uber has stopped using GitHub for anything expect open source code, after hackers in the 2016 data breach (announced last year) used credentials that they found on the platform to gain access to an...

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