What are the risks of using GitHub?

So, empirically speaking, they are safe . However, we are showing our information to a private company, so there is a risk, for example a Github employee that decides to copy our stuff. But, we should remember that a repository is mainly a backup. Having a private server is fine if you own the resources.28 Eki 2011

Hackers like GitHub for several reasons.

Platform. We keep GitHub safe, secure, and free of spam and abuse so that this can be the platform where developers come together to create. We do this through significant investments in platform security, incident response, and anti-abuse.

The malware is still live and being hosted on GitHub . GitHub has removed many forked projects hosting the malware, but the cybercriminals are very determined and continuously upload the malware on GitHub again and again.