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Hacked pipelines defaced Microsoft's WSL repository with pro-Palestine messages (github.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How can such thing happen? Was an account hacked that had the permissions?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Most likely someone submitted a pull request that abused the GitHub token of the Action running on new PRs in order to edit all the other pull requests.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago

It could also be an inside job. Anti-genocide resistance within Microsoft is quite strong and active.