26,400 Valid Cloud and AI Credentials Found Exposed in Public Gitee Repositories
A total of 26,400 valid credentials for cloud and AI services were found exposed in public Gitee repositories.
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26,400 credentials that developers left in public code on Gitee, a Chinese code-hosting service, still worked when a researcher tested them. Anyone who copied one from that code could have used it. Independent researcher Ben Zimmermann found them by scanning 7.25 million public Gitee repositories and reported the results on October 28. Most were keys for cloud and AI services, led by
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Valid credentials can provide access to cloud and AI services, making public exposure a potential security risk. The finding highlights the importance of keeping secrets out of public code repositories.
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