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#6 The Hacker News general May 17, 2026 at 07:13 UTC

Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Grafana disclosed that an unauthorized party obtained a GitHub access token, used it to download the company's full codebase, and subsequently attempted extortion. Grafana confirmed no customer data or personal information was accessed, but the incident underscores supply-chain risks from exposed source-code repository credentials.

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