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Grafana Labs internal source code accessed

25 pointsby jschorrtoday at 3:48 AM7 commentsview on HN

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ooritoday at 5:19 AM

Quote: “ The attacker attempted to blackmail us, demanding payment to prevent the release of our codebase. ...we’ve determined the appropriate path forward is to not pay the ransom.”

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iririririrtoday at 5:07 AM

aren't they just psql tho? well, i guess we will find out soon.

anotherhuetoday at 4:46 AM

Their whole repo had been made public !!!!

https://github.com/grafana/grafana

/s

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fsckboytoday at 5:58 AM

>We recently discovered that an unauthorized party obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the threat actor to download our codebase.

I don't much like the securityese dialect of bureaucratese, but should this be "We recently discovered that a threat actor obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the unauthorized party to download our codebase" ?