Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co.
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You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.
  • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The title is very click bait imo. It is not about any private data. It is a very specific case of deleted fork of the public repository. It is a bug, of course. But it doesn’t look so serious as I was thinking when saw the title.