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US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web

ID: 12e70f58-72ec-52d6-b7f1-ea23ec89cf64

STIX ID: report--12e70f58-72ec-52d6-b7f1-ea23ec89cf64

Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-05-19

Date Updated: 2026-05-19

Author: Zack Whittaker

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A public GitHub repository maintained by a CISA contractor inadvertently exposed spreadsheets of plaintext credentials — including access tokens and cloud keys — which a security researcher discovered and briefly validated before reporting the lapse; CISA says it is investigating and has found no indication of compromise.

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