Grafana Labs internal source code accessed

jschorr 25 points 6 comments May 17, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)

anotherhue

Their whole repo had been made public !!!! https://github.com/grafana/grafana /s

iririririr

aren't they just psql tho? well, i guess we will find out soon.

oori

Quote: “ The attacker attempted to blackmail us, demanding payment to prevent the release of our codebase. ...we’ve determined the appropriate path forward is to not pay the ransom.”

dijksterhuis

non-twitter link https://xcancel.com/grafana/status/2055827123236171827#m

fsckboy

> We recently discovered that an unauthorized party obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the threat actor to download our codebase. I don't much like the securityese dialect of bureaucratese, but should this be "We recently discovered that a threat actor obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the unauthorized party to download our codebase" ?

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