New York Times’ GitHub Software Repositories, Possibly Including Wordle, End Up on 4Chan

The New York Times has suffered a security incident that resulted in the
unauthorized release of data from 5,000 of its source code repositories, likely
including that of the popular game Wordle.

Source code and other critical information are usually the target of attackers
deploying ransomware, but sometimes employee mismanagement of credentials is
enough. Over the weekend, information that source code seemingly belonging to
the New York Times, roughly 270GB worth of data, showed up on the 4ch