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Cybersecurity researchers from Lasso reported their findings to Microsoft but got a mixed response.

Indeed, navigating directly to GitHub returns a page not found error.

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That allowed Copilot access to the data, even though it shouldnt have.

The implications of the findings could be quite severe.

Microsoft allegedly told the company that the issue is low severity and that the caching behavior was acceptable.

However, as of December 2024, Microsoft no longer includes links to Bings cache in its search results.

Copilot can still jump into the data.