GIGAZINE

It was pointed out that repositories that were supposed to be private on GitHub were made public through Microsoft's AI assistant 'Copilot'

The software development platform GitHub allows users to manage projects by making repositories private, preventing code from being seen by anyone other than those involved. However, an investigation ...
GIGAZINE

It's by design that anyone can access deleted or private repositories on GitHub.

GitHub allows anyone to access forks and repositories that have been deleted or set to private, and this behavior is by design and not a flaw, open source security firm Truffle Security said in a blog ...
Ars Technica

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, ...
TheServerSide

How to create a private GitHub repository example

Ever since they became a standard offering on a free tier, private GitHub repositories have become popular with developers. However, many developers become ...