26,400 Valid Cloud and AI Credentials Found Exposed in Public Gitee Repositories
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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| Source | The Hacker News |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 10/29/2026, 09:21 PM |
| Data | Markdown JSON |
On 10/29/2026, 08:33 PM, The Hacker News published "26,400 Valid Cloud and AI Credentials Found Exposed in Public Gitee Repositories" (type: Security news).