These repositories, belonging to more than 16,000 organizations, were originally posted to GitHub as public, but were later set to private, often after the developers responsible realized they contained authentication credentials allowing unauthorized access or other types of confidential data. Even months later, however, the private pages remain available in their entirety through Copilot.
The repo was listed as public and archived. It’s not clear from the article but I suspect that the “private” information is just a copy of what was made public and not the information added after it was made private.
Kind of a nothing burger.
The repo was listed as public and archived. It’s not clear from the article but I suspect that the “private” information is just a copy of what was made public and not the information added after it was made private.