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AI Coding Agents Are Leaking Credentials: Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and MCP
TL;DR
The hidden trail : Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot store credentials across config files, env variables, logs, shell history, and temp files that repository and CI scanners never inspect.
The evidence : GitGuardian's State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 found 24,008 unique secrets in public MCP configuration files, 2,117 of them valid, plus a 3.2% leak rate in Claude Code-assisted commits.
The fix : GitGuardian Developer Endpoint Protection discovers this trail fleet-wide w...
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