“The repo named in the notice was part of a fork network connected to our own public Claude Code repo, so the takedown reached more repositories than intended,” an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch. “We retracted the notice for everything except the one repo we named, and GitHub has restored access to the affected forks.”

Fake Claude Code leak repos on GitHub are pushing Vidar malware at users hunting for Anthropic’s exposed source code.

Anthropic unintentionally caused the removal of around 8,100 GitHub repositories while attempting to retract its leaked source code, a move the company claims was accidental.

Private and deleted GitHub repositories are not as secure as users might assume. Data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and private repositories can still be accessed, often indefinitely. This is an intentional design by GitHub, not a flaw.

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