Canonical Ltd.'s GitHub account, which is distributing Ubuntu Linux, was hacked on Saturday 6 July.
“We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a hacked GitHub account whose credentials were used to creation repositories and themes among other activities,” the group said security of the Ubuntu distribution.
Canonical has removed the infringed account from GitHub and is still investigating the extent of the violation, but there is no indication at this time that source code or PII has been affected.
In addition, the Launchpad infrastructure, in which Ubuntu distribution is being deployed and maintained, has been disconnected from GitHub and there is no evidence that it has been compromised.
Ubuntu's security team has said it plans to release a public one information when it finishes its investigation into the incident, and after carrying out more checks.
According a mirror of the hacked account of the Canonical account, the hacker created 11 new GitHub repositories on the official one channel by Canonical. All new repositories were empty.
Two days prior to the incident, the Bad Packets electronic security services company detected online scans for Git settings files. Such files can often contain Git account credentials, such as those used for code management at GitHub.com.
This weekend security incident is not the first thing the company is experiencing.
Recall that the official Ubuntu forums were violated on three different occasions - in July 2013, the July of 2016 and in December of 2016.
Hackers stole the details of 1,82 million users in the July 2013 breach, the details of two million users in July 2016, and in December 2016 deface on the forum.
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