39 Million Secrets Leaked on GitHub in 2024

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Keeping secrets protected on GitHub is now easier, courtesy of new capabilities that the Microsoft-owned code hosting platform announced on Wednesday.

With GitHub discovering roughly 39 million leaked secrets across the platform in 2024, it’s clear that inadvertently exposing secrets in code happens rather often, and threat actors are known to harvest and exploit them within minutes.

To help organizations and developers better protect tokens, credentials, and other secrets and prevent their exposure, GitHub is now offering Secret Protection and Code Security as standalone products for enterprise customers.

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39 Million Secrets Leaked on GitHub in 2024

GitHub has announced new capabilities to help organizations and developers keep secrets in their code protected.

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