[LT-03]
The 39 Million Credential Problem
GitHub's Octoverse 2024 report documented 39 million secrets leaked on GitHub during the year — a 25% year-over-year increase from 2023. These secrets include API keys, database connection strings, authentication tokens, private certificates, and cloud provider credentials.
The source of these leaks is well-documented: developers commit code that contains secrets — either accidentally (debugging configuration left in a commit) or through inadequate...