Security News > 2020 > November > No, GitHub's source code wasn't hacked and posted on GitHub, says GitHub CEO

GitHub's CEO has denied that the site's source code was posted to GitHub.

News of the supposed leak and posting came from a site called Resynth that linked to a Wayback Machine snapshot of a GitHub repo that purported to be the work of GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and was labelled "This is GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise."

It also recounted an argument that the software giant's ownership of GitHub means it should walk the talk and make the site's code open.

"Through closed-source applications, and proprietary extensions to Git, GitHub is seen as a platform that tries to contain open-source. An example of this is when GitHub went offline for two hours, leaving thousands of open-source projects inaccessible and unusable."

"We accidentally shipped an un-stripped/obfuscated tarball of our GitHub Enterprise Server source code to some customers a couple of months ago. It shares code with github.com. As others have pointed out, much of GitHub is written in Ruby.".

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