It was a poor decision to remove GitHub’s support for password authentication. Working with GitHub becomes more difficult, and it’s much harder for beginners to get started with Git and GitHub.

A personal GitHub access token with administrative privileges to the official repositories for the Python programming language and the Python Package Index (PyPI) was exposed for over a year.

JetBrains warned customers to patch a critical vulnerability that impacts users of its IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE) apps and exposes GitHub access tokens.