US investigators probing breach at code testing vendor – iTnews

US federal investigators are probing an intrusion at San Francisco-based software auditing company Codecov that affected an unknown number of its 29,000 customers, the firm said, raising the spectre of knock-on breaches at companies elsewhere.
Codecov said in a statement hackers began tampering with its software – which is used across the tech industry to help test code for mistakes and vulnerabilities – on January 31.
However, the intrusion was only detected earlier this month when an astute customer…

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