Incident #1734
AI Coding Agents Reportedly Exposed Over 13,000 Internal Images from Hundreds of Organizations on Public GitHub Code Repositories
Description
AI coding agents reportedly published over 13,000 internal images from more than 300 organizations on GitHub, a code-hosting platform, while preparing screenshots for code reviews. The exposed material reportedly included customer billing records and unreleased product features. Most images were hosted in public repositories under employees' personal accounts. The models involved were not named.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- ai-coding-assistant-users
- software-developers
- ai-agent-system-deployers
Alleged Developers
- ai-agent-system-developers
- large-language-model-developers
Harmed Parties
- organizations-whose-internal-data-was-exposed-by-ai-coding-agents
- organizations
- third-parties-whose-confidential-data-was-exposed
- privacy
- information-security