{
  "id": 19618558,
  "title": "Attacker Used 4,837 Hijacked GitHub Accounts to Run a CI Secret Stealer in 1,806+ Repositories",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/attacker-used-4-837-hijacked-github-accounts-to-run-a-ci-secret",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-12T06:42:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/4837-hijacked-github-accounts-ran-ci.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Starting Tuesday, an attacker used stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts to plant a secret stealer in repositories those accounts could write to, according to Aikido Security, a security software company. The stealer is built to take the secrets and cloud credentials that a repository's CI workflows can reach. It ran in at least 1,806 repositories, where the attacker has likely collected",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}