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The headline is misleading because it implies the source code was already on GitHub.

If the source was not already on GitHub, then a "GitHub Leak" of that source could not possibly be caused by a software error.

It doesn't imply that to me.

Just by reading the title my first though was somehow a iOS update caused a bug in GitHub that led to the source code leaking.

I figured the iOS bug somehow leaked credentials that gave access to GitHub.

Regardless, many of us agree that the title suggests GitHub as a central role to the leak. If, as other commenters say, it was just used as a file host.. it doesn't belong in the title imo. It's just there to pull in more views. It may as well been Piratebay.

The fact that it’s ambiguous is itself misleading. Typical headlines.

Github has private repos for customers. When I first read the title I assumed it had something to do with breaking into one of those.

Cause probably many people (including me) assumed that "Github leak caused by bad ios" was the reason why snapchat's code was leaked.