Copper.co provides digital asset custody technology, including to the likes of State Street. Today it acknowledged a security ‘incident’ over the Christmas period, which it said was not a breach.
The startup was responding to a Coindesk report that alleged that Copper’s private Github repository had been accessed and its source code was copied.
Several other companies reported similar private Github incidents around the same time. In these other cases, it appears this was not a Github weakness, but staff Github accounts had been compromised. The companies include Slack and (more seriously) Okta, the identity company that provides single sign-on services, including to the U.S. Department of Defense.
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