17 May 2026 - 12:17

Category: Breach

Grafana's GitHub keys go walkabout

Grafana discovered that leaving a GitHub token lying around allowed an uninvited guest to help themselves to the entire codebase. Apparently, access is now just a polite suggestion.

Grafana's GitHub keys go walkabout

Source: The Hacker News

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Severity: High Mood: Expected

It appears the fine folks at Grafana decided their proprietary code was a bit too lonely, so they accidentally shared a GitHub token with an extortionist who promptly downloaded the lot. This little oversight impacts anyone relying on Grafana's supposedly secure development environment, which has now been treated like an open buffet for code thieves. To protect ourselves from this repetitive nonsense, one might try the radical concept of auditing token permissions before they become public property, though I suspect we’ll just be back here next week. We should probably rotate our own secrets before they decide to retire early to a hacker's hard drive, not that anyone actually listens to the helpdesk.

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