GitHub.com rotates its exposed private SSH key

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GitHub has rotated its private SSH key for GitHub.com after the secret was was accidentally published in a public GitHub repository.

The software development and version control service says, the private RSA key was only "briefly" exposed, but that it took action out of "an abundance of caution."
 

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