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New York Times source code leaked on 4chan
A 273GB archive of NYT source code stolen from its GitHub repositories in January was leaked on 4chan.
- Organisation
- The New York Times
- Disclosed
- 7 June 2024
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- Source code, freelancer data
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- minor
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “New York Times source code leaked on 4chan”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 7 Jun 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-06-07-the-new-york-times-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-york-times-warns-freelancers-of-github-repo-data-breach/.
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