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🔐 Red Hat confirms major breach of GitLab consulting systems What happened: On October 3, 2025 , Red Hat publicly confirmed a security breach affecting one of its GitLab instances used by its consulting arm.  The attacker claims to have exfiltrated ~570 GB of data from over 28,000 private repositories .  Red Hat says the impacted instance is separate from its core product and open source development platforms; its software supply chain and GitHub infrastructure are “not believed to be impacted.”  Why it matters (especially for non‑tech folks / seniors): Red Hat is a major player in the open source software ecosystem; attackers stealing internal code or client data could expose sensitive business or customer information. Even if not your software provider, big breaches like this raise the risk of downstream attacks — e.g. malicious actors could inject backdoors, exploit trust relationships, or use stolen code to craft new vulnerabilities. It also ...