GitGuardian Reports an 81% Surge of AI-Service Leaks as 29M Secrets Hit Public GitHub

**Executive summary:** GitGuardian's 2025 State of Secrets Sprawl report shows that AI-assisted development significantly increased secret leaks—driving ~29 million detected secrets and a year-over-year 34% rise—with Claude Code-assisted commits leaking at ~3.2% (about double baseline), AI service credential leaks up 81%, internal repos ~6× more likely to contain hardcoded secrets, and widespread remediation failures (64% of valid secrets from 2022 still unrevoked in 2026); the report calls for treating non-human identities as first-class assets with dedicated governance and remediation automation.