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CISA Security Leak - Schneier on Security
Crazy story: 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. News article.
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techcrunch.com
US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web | TechCrunch
The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.
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cryptobriefing.com
CISA exposed plaintext passwords and cloud keys on GitHub for six months
CISA left plaintext passwords and AWS GovCloud admin keys in a public GitHub repo for six months. GitGuardian discovered the 844 MB exposure on May 14, 2026.
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theregister.com
America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames
I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?
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America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames
I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'?
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arstechnica.com
Secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo
SSH keys, plaintext passwords, other sensitive data had been up since November 2025.
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darkreading.com
CISA Exposes Secrets, Credentials in 'Private' Repo
The agency's GitHub repository, publicly available since November 2025, was ironically named "Private-CISA."
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dev.to
How We Got a CISA GitHub Leak Taken Down in Under a Day
On May 14, 2026, GitGuardian found what looked like leaked CISA secrets in a public GitHub repository...
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nextgov.com
House Homeland Dems request CISA briefing amid report of leaked agency credentials
Independent journalist Brian Krebs reported Monday that researchers found a publicly accessible GitHub repository connected to a government contractor that exposed CISA data.
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schneier.com
CISA Security Leak - Schneier on Security
Crazy story: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to…