Data leak from New York Times: Source code and repost stories end up on 4chan
A 4chan user claims to have published 270 GByte of internal data and repositories of the New York Times via the Internet forum.
3,600,000 files are said to be affected by the data theft at the NYT.
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According to reports on the bulletin board 4chan, 270 GByte of data from the New York Times was published and freely accessible via the "/g/-Technology" forum. The hacker repository vx-underground posted about this incident on X on Friday. At that time, it was no longer possible to access the data via the published links.
4chan is an internet forum that was originally founded by fans of manga and anime. It has since become notorious for its subforum "/b/", where users sometimes share content that glorifies violence, pornography and racism.
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The anonymous 4chan user claims that the data comprises 5,000 repositories and 3.6 million files, most of which are unencrypted. The online portal "TheRegister" claims to have gained access to parts of the data before it was blocked. A list of the allegedly published repositories is currently still available. The New York Times has not yet issued a statement on the alleged data leak.
If the report is confirmed, it would not be the first data theft at the NYT. In the past, the hacker group "Hacking for Girls" (HFG) gained temporary access to the servers. At the time, the New York Times had to take the website offline for 9 hours until the damage was repaired. HFG's action was prompted by an article that described hackers as "immature boys". A few years later, in 2016, suspected Russian cyber spies managed to gain access to the email inboxes of the New York Times and other American news organizations.
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