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DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes 12,000 Hardcoded API Keys and Passwords

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A sweeping analysis of the Common Crawl dataset—a cornerstone of training data for large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek—has uncovered 11,908 live API keys, passwords, and credentials embedded in publicly accessible web pages. The leaked secrets, which authenticate successfully with… Read more → The post DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes 12,000 Hardcoded API Keys and Passwords appeared first on IT Security News.

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12,000+ API Keys and Passwords Found in Public Datasets Used for LLM Training

A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication.The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk to users and organizations alike, not to mention compounding the problem when LLMs end up suggesting insecure coding practices to their users.Truffle

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DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes 12,000 Hardcoded API Keys and Passwords

A sweeping analysis of the Common Crawl dataset—a cornerstone of training data for large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek—has uncovered 11,908 live API keys, passwords, and credentials embedded in publicly accessible web pages. The leaked secrets, which authenticate successfully with services ranging from AWS to Slack and Mailchimp, highlight systemic risks in AI development pipelines […] The post DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes 12,000 Hardcoded…

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