Description: A dataset used to train large language models allegedly contained 12,000 live API keys and authentication credentials. Some of these were reportedly still active and allowed unauthorized access. Truffle Security found these secrets in a December 2024 Common Crawl archive, which spans 250 billion web pages. The affected credentials could have been exploited for unauthorized data access, service disruptions, financial fraud, and a variety of other malicious uses.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Microsoft , OpenAI and Common Crawl developed an AI system deployed by Microsoft , OpenAI , Common Crawl and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, which harmed Microsoft , AWS , Slack , Mailchimp , Google , Intel , Huawei , PayPal , IBM and Tencent.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Common Crawl dataset (December 2024 archive) , Microsoft Copilot , Google Gemini , Anthropic Claude , ChatGPT , xAI Grok , DeepSeek and LLMs trained on compromised data
Incident Stats
Incident ID
956
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-02-28
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication.
The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk t…
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