Ranking member Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) speaks during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 25, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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Independent journalist Brian Krebs reported Monday that researchers found a publicly accessible GitHub repository connected to a government contractor that exposed CISA data.
Ranking member Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) speaks during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 25, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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Reported exposure of federal cybersecurity agency login data prompts Hill scrutiny

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Secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

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America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

Lawmakers are seeking a briefing from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency after reports that a contractor-linked…

Researchers uncovered an exposed GitHub repository that included internal credentials and files.

Crazy story: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a…

SSH keys, plaintext passwords, other sensitive data had been up since November 2025.

A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security…

The Homeland Security Information Network is used by government, international and private sector partners to share sensitive but…