Cybersecurity
Uber Hack Shows Vulnerability of Software Code-Sharing Services
- Security experts, hackers often find passwords left on Github
- Value of code-sharing may outweigh risks, experts say
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The data breach at Uber Technologies Inc. holds a lesson for software developers who use third-party services to store and share code: be careful what you share.
Services like San Francisco-based Github Inc., GitLab and SourceForge are used by developers to collaborate on projects, track bugs in code and distribute early versions of applications. They’re also a target for cyberthieves.