Police investigate mass leak of GitHub access tokens

South Korea’s national police said Tuesday they had launched an investigation after confirming that a large number of personal access tokens that could be used to access private GitHub repositories had been exposed. GitHub, a Microsoft-owned software development platform, allows companies and developers to store, manage and share source code. Personal access tokens, or PATs, are credentials used to authenticate users and grant access to repositories and other resources. More than 500 accounts ar

By The Korea Herald