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Cybersecurity researchers have found thousands oflogin credentialsand other secrets in the Common Crawl dataset.
Software developers often leave login credentials and other secrets in the code, to simplify the process during development.
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Cybercriminals could scour the archives for the secrets themselves, but there is an ever bigger problem here.
That being said, Truffle Security allegedly reached out to impacted vendors and helped them revoke compromised keys.
