Tag Archives: GitGuardian

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

May 18, 2026

The Private CISA GitHub repo exposed dozens of plaintext credentials to important CISA GovCloud resources. The filenames include AWS-Workspace-Bookmarks-April-6-2026.html, AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv, Important AWS Tokens.txt, kube-config.txt, etc.

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI

July 14, 2025

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Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.

xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

May 1, 2025

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A employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.