Yandex Denies Hack, Blames Source Code Leak on Former Employee

A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum. From a report: Yesterday, the leaker posted a magnet link that they claim are 'Yandex git sources' consisting of 44.7 GB of files stolen from the company in July 2022. These code repositories allegedly contain all of the company's source code besides anti-spam rules.

lol

[GoRK]

And nothing of value was lost.

second hand blues

[algaeman]

This will be upsetting to the companies from which they originally stole the code.

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[buck-yar]

Time will tell but according to publicly available data, Google used Robin Li's code (founder of Yandex). Its cited in the patent for Pagerank.

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[buck-yar]

oops my mistake, that was Baidu.
Don't post without first checking (there's no edit)

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[fbobraga]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

Wot Yandex?

[dohzer]

"Yandex is a search engine and web portal. Yandex offers internet search and other services like maps, navigator, public transport, taxi, weather, news, ..."

TIL Russians don't consider insider threats hacks

[Autonin]

A breach is a breach, exfiltration is exfiltration, Tovarish.