GitHub, a company owned by Microsoft, was compromised.
A GitHub employee browsing the VS Code marketplace, an asset owned and operated by Microsoft, inadvertently donated a malicious VS Code extension, which Microsoft offers guidance and best practices on to avoid
1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories.
Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately.