**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CYBER DIVISION ACCIDENTALLY LEAKS OWN PLAYBOOK: ‘WE’VE BEEN HACKED BY OUR OWN GITHUB’

Washington, D.C. – In what cybersecurity experts are calling “the most ironic oopsie since the firewall caught fire,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) accidentally published a massive trove of sensitive internal data to a public GitHub repository, inadvertently providing hackers with a detailed, step-by-step guide on… how to defend against hackers.

“We were trying to be transparent about government security practices,” said a CISA spokesperson, sweating through his lanyard. “Turns out, we were too transparent.” The leaked repository, titled “CISA_Internal_Ops_Final_v3_PROTECTED,” contained everything from password hard-coded comments ("//TODO: Remove this password before launch—Spoiler: they did not") to a PowerPoint deck titled “How to Spot a Phishing Email,” which, confusingly, was itself distributed as a phishing link.

The internet, predictably, reacted with the glee of a raccoon finding a bag of open chips. Within hours, GitHub users had forked the repo, renamed it “CISA_Internal_Ops_Final_v3_PUBLIC_LOL,” and added pull requests titled “Fixed your firewall config, you’re welcome.” Comedian and tech pundit @NotABot420 tweeted: “If you can’t secure your own GitHub, maybe don’t tell me to update my router’s firmware.”

When asked for comment, a CISA official whispered: “We now know how it feels to be a target of a spear-phishing campaign. Except we were the ones who sharpened the spear.”

The agency reminds everyone to change their passwords. Again.

Tags: #CISALeak #GitHubOps #IronicH