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Re:GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCod... by ashishb on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:39PM (#48213801)
Uber had 8000 repos at one point with 2000 engineers - https://highscalability.com/lessons-learned-from-scaling-ube...
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Re:GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCod... by Gigachad on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:27PM (#48215763)
Probably most of them are forks of some public repo with some patch applied and half of those are probably not even used internally anymore.
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Re:GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCod... by ashishb on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:01PM (#48216456)
Afaik, they eventually cleaned it up.

And it was each team owning multiple internal repos of their own deployments/libraries, and not, primarily, clones of public repos.

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