Secrets sprawl isn’t slowing down: in 2025, it accelerated faster than most security teams anticipated. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report analyzed billions of commits across public GitHub and uncovered 29 million new hardcoded secrets in 2025 alone, a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump ever recorded.
This year’s findings reveal three core trends: AI has
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