🔴 500,000 Active Credentials Left Exposed on GitHub

Truffle Security has discovered over half a million active unique credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories.

A total of 1,103,438 exposed credentials were discovered through the scanning of 224 million public GitHub repositories in August 2025.

At the end of July 2026, the security firm tested the credentials against their services and found that 543,699 of them were still active.

The oldest is an AWS key that was committed in 2009 and has remained untouched since. The median exposure window across the set is 784 days.