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New York Times warns freelancers of GitHub repo data breach
(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
“Hacking” is a catch all term for security breaches, including phishing to the general public.
Yes it is. You can be a pedantic a-hole all you want, but “hacking” includes phishing, social engineering and pretty much any other form of access control circumvention to the general public.
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Also from the article itself
Exposed GitHub token is very likely someone messed up and either exposed a token or was victim to an attack that could pull the token. Those are not uncommon and have happened to a lot of companies.
Reading the article proves your assumption wrong