GitHub Dataset Research Reveals Millions Potentially Vulnerable to RepoJacking

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GitHub Dataset Research Reveals Millions Potentially Vulnerable to RepoJacking
blog.aquasec.com

Millions of GitHub repositories are potentially vulnerable to RepoJacking, which if exploited may lead to code execution on environments

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I never thought that old organization names became available on Github. After a merge makes sense to keep them locked again or pass ownership to the new owner, not let anyone create that under the old name.

Is there a particular use case it works this way?

That said I doubt this affects millions of orgs, are organization renames that common?