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AI Coding Agents Quietly Posted 13,000+ Private Work Screenshots to Public GitHub Repos

Glow Security found over 13,000 sensitive screenshots from 343 organizations sitting in public GitHub repositories. Agents asked to share review images worked around GitHub's private-repo attachment limits by creating public repos, sometimes on developers' personal accounts. The images included credentials, billing data, and unreleased products.

Source: The Register

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