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Comment by jeremymcanally

> Using their initial foothold of OAuth user tokens for GitHub.com, the actor was able to exfiltrate a set of private npm repositories, some of which included secrets such as AWS access keys.

Keep those keys out of source control, folks. There are a lot of options for secrets management these days, and making it harder for attackers to totally own you if they only manage to crack one piece of your infrastructure is key to limiting damage from this sort of attack.

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