Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended

https://github.com/icflorescu/mantine-datatable/discussions/813

by justsomehuman • 2 months ago

72 30 2 months ago

github.com

j1elo• 2 months ago

So in summary:

* GitHub's backwards priorities end up causing a hack on their systems.

* Hackers use their newly gained powers to compromise other people's repos.

* GitHub dectects compromised repo, and suspends the account of its maintainer, so they cannot warn nor act against it to protect or at least warn their community of users.

"I cause a fire, and later ban you for getting burned."

No wonder people are leaving.

zuzululu4• 2 months ago

Where are they going? If its not self hosted I don't see it not ending up like github.

crazysim2• 2 months ago

codeberg

I had a repo with more than a dozen forks banned on GitHub for some unclear TOS violations. Ticket has been sitting for a week plus now, asking for clarification and guidance.

So, it lives in codeberg now. https://codeberg.org/nelsonjchen/op-replay-clipper

phoronixrly• 2 months ago

There exist competent operations people and competent developers.

arealaccount• 2 months ago

Why do people not like gitlab? I’ve always found it a better experience than github

jerf• 2 months ago

"We have checked our own environments thoroughly and found no traces of compromise. We suspect this may be part of the broader GitHub infrastructure breach carried out by the TeamPCP hacking group in May 2026: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/github-says-hackers-stole-..."

Greater HN collective, please help me metaphorically double-click on this. I've poked around a bit but didn't find out much more than the given link. What are we concerned about the hack possibly having accomplished?

Because stealing repos is bad enough... but are we saying it's possible that commits can now magically appear in repos from hackers? I don't want to raise any alarms if I'm misreading this or if we're early in the news cycle, but if that's possible, I and a lot of other people reading this need to have some immediate conversations with a lot of people. So... is that what this is saying? Or am I misreading it? I sure hope so.

zuzululu4• 2 months ago

I was impacted. found weird spam repos that later were deployed on cloudflare redirecting my domains.

meanwhile the gitea running on my metalbox for nearly a decade has seen no compromise and 100% uptime when cloudflare has gone down repeatedly

im rethinking the whole "go where crowd is" , while great from evolutionary point of view, its the complete opposite. Where the crowd gathers online is the most dangerous place.

em-bee3• 2 months ago

it's the same with linux viruses. they were always a possibility, but because linux is not popular, they were never an issue.

cookiengineer• 2 months ago

Don't use github actions. Don't use toolchains that auto execute stuff.

Simple as that, because that's the attack surface.

https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/malware-insights-git...

I wrote that article December 2024. Still ongoing, Microsoft. Best enterprise security practices, I suppose shrugs ...

tom1337• 2 months ago

Looking at the setup.js it seems to be an infostealer which posts the found details to a newly created github repo (on the victims account) or a command and control server. As far as I can tell it looks for github secrets and kubernetes cluster secrets.

Carbonhell• 2 months ago

Seems like it's similar to the attack reported in this other HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409869

christeamrs• 2 months ago

We're working on an antiworm. One of our customers got affected.

Our tool already discovers infected repositories and mitigates/removes the implants from the filesystem.

Please revoke/rotate all your tokens and passwords that were used in the infected repositories, the worm is pretty sophisticated.

https://github.com/Team-Rockstars-Security/antimiasma

wewewedxfgdf• 2 months ago

Its funnyweird that the post is from his wife rather than from him using his wife's account.

mbreese• 2 months ago

She has her own GitHub account. It’s funny weird, but in a good way methinks.

I’m thinking of it this way - if your spouse’s GH account was breached and blocked, would you let them use your account? I would not… This isn’t her account issue, it’s his.

rcxdude• 2 months ago

Well, it's probably better to avoid the risk of her account being banned for 'ban evasion'.

rurban• 2 months ago

20hrs no action by MS to fix this heavy security problem? It's embarassing

icflorescu• 2 months ago

It's 3 days now, and sadly yes, I can confirm the story. My @icflorescu GH account still suspended, total silence from their support, malicious payload still there and no way for me to remove it. Haven't slept since, tried everything, posted everywhere I could think of. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Mantine-datatable (and others) compromised – owner account suspended

Related Stories