4,500 OF THE TOP 1 MILLION WEBSITES LEAKED SOURCE CODE, SECRETS

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Security researchers collaborated to scan the Alexa Top 1 Million Websites for leaked secrets and discovered that 4,500 of the most heavily visited websites in the world publicly exposed their git directory, which often contained the entire private source code for a given website. AWS and GitHub keys accounted for 45% of all leaked credentials and third-party email marketing services accounted for a large percentage of the leaked keys.