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Over 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories

BleepingComputer · · International · Data Breaches

More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform's security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data. [...]

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