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title: "Tech Crunch: Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"
description: "Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code.\n\nAccording to security firm Cloudsmith and community-driven malware analysis site OpenSourceMalware, which were some of the first to flag the hack, the malware allowed the hackers to steal the users’ passwords and other sensitive credentials when they opened the compromised tools in their AI coding apps."
canonical_url: "https://cloudsmith.com/company/press/microsoft-s-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-ai-developers"
last_updated: "2026-06-08"
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# Tech Crunch: Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers