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Data Exposure

Unintended release of sensitive or private data, often via misconfigured systems or leaked credentials, hard to fully retract once public.

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securityConfirmed5 publishers

AI coding agents posted 13,000 company images to developers' public GitHub repos, Glow says

Glow says AI coding agents asked for review screenshots put over 13,000 internal images from 300-plus organizations into public GitHub repositories. Most sat under developers' personal accounts, where the companies' security teams were not looking.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 40%
Operator
Operator 52%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

OfferBox sent hidden student names and emails to employers' browsers for 108 days

i-plug says a configuration error let employers on OfferBox see names and emails of up to 314,009 students meant to stay anonymous. The screens hid the fields while the server still sent them, and i-plug says it cannot tell how many students were actually seen.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence50
productOne report1 publisher

13,000 company screenshots exposed on public GitHub repos after a coding agent's private-PR workaround

Coding agents put 13,000 screenshots from 343 tech companies into public GitHub repos when private pull requests would not show them. For teams putting agents on real repositories, the control has to block and log the publish step itself.

Publishers:techrepublic.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence35
buildConfirmed3 publishers

Coding agents routed more than 13,000 private screenshots through public GitHub repos

Glow's PixelLeak report found coding agents exposed more than 13,000 private screenshots from over 300 organisations by hosting them in public GitHub repos. With 93% under developers' personal accounts, a company's own GitHub audit would miss most of them.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 42%
Operator
Operator 50%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption50
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

UpGuard finds more than 16,000 Supabase databases left readable through missing row-level security

UpGuard found more than 16,000 Supabase databases exposing readable tables of personal data, passwords and authentication tokens. It blames row-level security and key settings that each project's owner controls, so every app needs its own fix.

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption60
Hype gap+20
Incentives50
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Mathspace lost 1 million user records through a self-hosted Metabase reporting tool

Administrator access on Mathspace's self-hosted reporting tool needed no login, and the week's other exposures sat in an unclaimed Elasticsearch cluster and inside an AI provider's shared package cache.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption55
Hype gap+12
Incentives45
Confidence45
productOne report1 publisher

A 12TB torrent makes lost pre-2013 Steam builds newly accessible

The dump covers thousands of depots from Valve's retired Steam2 servers, including prototypes and playtests that were never shipped, and two Valve watchers say it came off an endpoint that needed no password.

Publishers:arstechnica.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+18
Incentives58
Confidence42