Security · Updated 29 Oct, 05:03 pm IST

Researcher finds 26,400 valid cloud and AI credentials in public Gitee repos

Why it matters for readers: This shows how easy it can be to accidentally leak powerful access credentials in public code.

Ben Zimmermann scanned 7.25 million public repositories on Gitee to find exposed credentials.1
He found 26,400 credentials that were still valid when he tested them.1
Most of the exposed secrets were keys for cloud and AI services.1
Zimmermann published the results of his scan on October 28.1

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