{"id":244707,"date":"2026-10-01T01:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/over-543000-valid-credentials-exposed-in-public-github-repositories"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:29:01","slug":"over-543000-valid-credentials-exposed-in-public-github-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/over-543000-valid-credentials-exposed-in-public-github-repositories","title":{"rendered":"Over 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/over-543000-valid-credentials-exposed-in-public-github-repositories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform\u2019s security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p>Data pulled from scanning 224 million repositories and more than 58 billion files show that the median time a unique credential remained publicly accessible was 784 days.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted by Truffle Security, which found that about 10% of the working credentials were older than 6.3 years and the oldest one dated from 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform\u2019s security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data. Data pulled from scanning 224 million repositories and more than 58 billion files show that the median time a unique credential remained publicly accessible was 784 days. The research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244707","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=244707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}