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GitGuardian Reports an 81% Surge of AI-Service Leaks as 29M Secrets Hit Public GitHub
AI-assisted coding drove a 34% year-over-year surge in leaked secrets in 2025, with Claude Code commits showing a 3.2% leak rate (over twice the 1.5% baseline) resulting in nearly 29 million exposed credentials detected on GitHub. Leaks involving AI service credentials jumped 81% year-over-year, and internal repositories were six times more likely to contain hardcoded secrets. Persistent remediation gaps (64% of valid secrets from 2022 still unrecalled) highlight critical governance and NHI management shortfalls.
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