Slack’s private GitHub code repositories stolen over holidays

Ax Sharma reports:

Slack suffered a security incident over the holidays affecting some of its private GitHub code repositories.

… The incident involves threat actors gaining access to Slack’s externally hosted GitHub repositories via a “limited” number of Slack employee tokens that were stolen.

While some of Slack’s private code repositories were breached, Slack’s primary codebase and customer data remain unaffected, according to the company.