Hackers have hit open source software development platform GitHub, removing code repositories and asking ransom from developers in order to restore their source codes.<br /><br />According to a report in ZDNet late on Friday, hundreds of developers have had their source code repositories wiped <br />and replaced with a ransom demand on Microsoft-owned GitHub.<br /><br />"What is known is that the hacker removes all source code <br />and recent commits from victims' Git repositories, and leaves a ransom note behind that asking for a payment in Bitcoins<br /><br />The hackers claim all source code has been downloaded <br />and stored on one of their servers.<br /><br />"To recover your lost code and avoid leaking it Send us 0.1 Bitcoin<br />to our Bitcoin address and contact us by email at, admin, at, gits-backup dot com with your Git login and a proof of payment," <br /><br />"If you are unsure if we have your data, contact us and we will send you a proof. <br /><br />Your code is downloaded and backed up on our servers.<br /><br />"If we don't receive your payment in the next 10 days, <br />we will make your code public or use them otherwise,"<br /><br />A GitHub search revealed that at least 392 GitHub repositories <br />have been compromised.<br /><br />Kathy Wang, Director of Security for GitLab, <br />was quoted as saying that they immediately began investigation into the issue."We have identified affected user accounts <br />and all of those users have been notified. As a result of our investigation, we have strong evidence that the compromised accounts have account passwords being stored in plaintext <br />on a deployment of a related repository,"<br /><br />Jeremy Galloway, a security researcher at Atlassian, which owns BitBucket, told Motherboard that the company has seen a lot of users' repositories getting hit by these hackers.
