{"id":207509,"date":"2025-03-01T04:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/12000-api-keys-and-passwords-found-in-public-datasets-used-for-llm-training"},"modified":"2025-03-01T04:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:14:22","slug":"12000-api-keys-and-passwords-found-in-public-datasets-used-for-llm-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/12000-api-keys-and-passwords-found-in-public-datasets-used-for-llm-training","title":{"rendered":"12,000+ API Keys and Passwords Found in Public Datasets Used for LLM Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/12000-api-keys-and-passwords-found-in-public-datasets-used-for-llm-training.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication.<\/p>\n<p>The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk to users and organizations alike, not to mention compounding the problem when LLMs end up suggesting insecure coding practices to their users.<\/p>\n<p>Truffle Security said it downloaded a December 2024 archive from <a href=\"https:\/\/commoncrawl.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Common Crawl<\/a>, which maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data. The massive dataset contains over 250 billion pages spanning 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication. The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk to users and organizations alike, not to mention compounding the problem when LLMs end up suggesting insecure coding practices [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}