Code keeps moving through pipelines, and credentials continue to surface alongside it. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 puts the count at 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets in public GitHub commits in 2025, extending a multi-year rise in exposed access keys, tokens, and passwords. Public and internal repositories that contain at least one secret (Source: GitGuardian) Exposure is spreading beyond code The problem no longer exists only in public repositories, since internal environments carry a … More → The post AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure appeared first on Help Net Security.