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What's so wise about that?
All of our data goes through 3rd party servers.
I have a lot more confidence in GitHub to keep my files safe than in many system admins.
I suspect the hacker from the article guessed a password or even got it through social hacking or a keylogger (that has to be installed as well).
The chances of such a thing happening are small if your people are well trained and aware.
Meanwhile, it allows teams to work from anywhere, which is especially important now.

Let's look at the alternative, put it on your own server and secure it through VPN.
But there's the thing, if someone gets those VPN credentials using the same methods they used to get the GitHub credentials, they'll probably get access to a lot more than just source files.
And who is to say your system administrator secured it correctly in the first place?
Especially if that sort of thing isn't your main business, you'll have to hire a third party to do it for you, but they can't be arsed by making sure you stay up-to-date and have all the latest security patches and before you know it your on-premises server is a lot less safe than a GitHub, Office 365, Azure or what cloud solutions have you.
Even if you have a system administrator, keeping a large enough environment safe is a full time job that also requires constant learning (kind of like maintaining software Big Grin | :-D ).

I'm pretty sure a lot of companies haven't been breached just because they're to small or to unknown and not interesting for hackers.

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