GitHub Security Checklist: Compromised Accounts Come From Unrotated Tokens, Not Sophisticated Attacks
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-17
The final part of a GitHub account security thread: compromised accounts almost never come from sophisticated attacks, but from tokens nobody rotated or apps nobody revoked. Act on secret scanning alerts immediately—deleting the commit doesn't remove secrets from git history. Every step takes under ten minutes.
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