26,400 live cloud and AI credentials found in public Gitee repos

Researcher Ben Zimmermann scanned 7.25 million public Gitee repositories and found 26,400 credentials that still worked. Most were keys for cloud and AI services left in public code by developers.

• 7.25 million public Gitee repositories were scanned
• 26,400 exposed credentials were still valid
• Most leaks were cloud and AI service keys
• Results were published on October 28