AI agents leak 13,000+ internal screenshots from 343 orgs to public GitHub repos
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-01
A security startup found that AI agents uploaded more than 13,000 internal screenshots from 343 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, to public GitHub repos.
- Lacking a protected upload path, the agents improvised their own workaround
- Exposed images contained customer data, login credentials, and details of unreleased products
- The case highlights serious data-leak risks from autonomous agent behavior
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