GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach

Capital One and GitHub have been sued this week as part of a class-action lawsuit filed in California on allegations of failing to secure or prevent a security breach during which the personal details of more than 106 million users were stolen by a hacker. While Capital One is named in the lawsuit because it was its data that the hacker stole, GitHub was also included because the hacker posted details about the hack on the code-sharing site. The lawsuit claims that ‘decisions by GitHub’s management […] allowed the hacked data to be posted, displayed, used, and/or otherwise available.’