[vasco]

The current title "Gitlab.com Was Compromised" doesn't seem accurate. There's someone (or a group) currently attacking online repositories (gitlab is not the only affected provider) using passwords found in scans for files like .gitconfig's and the like. Unless new information comes to light about gitlab specifically being compromised, I'd say this is more about individual private repos being on the sights of a targetted attack.

[commandersaki]

So git doesn't let you add the `.git` to the index. Most reports I've seen mention that SourceTree was used as a git client. Is it possible that SourceTree committed .git and pushed it to remotes which were then scraped?

[plttn]

https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1124429828680085504

Looks like someone was scraping for `.git/config`