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incidents/AIR-2026-0377

AI Coding Agents Exposed Internal Images and Data on Public GitHub Repos

AI-enabled attack4 Confirmed real-world lossData leak

AI coding assistants improperly published over 13,000 internal images and sensitive documents from hundreds of organizations to public GitHub repositories. The exposed data included customer billing records and unreleased product features.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • Data leak
    Training data, chat logs, system prompts, model weights or other AI-system data exposed.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
4 · Confirmed real-world loss
Financial loss, PHI/PII breach, safety impact or regulatory action.
targets
Enterprise deployment
products
GitHub, AI coding agents
incident date
29 Sep 2026
first reported
29 Sep 2026
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
data-leak · github · coding-agents
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-09-29
    AI Coding Agents Reportedly Exposed Over 13,000 Internal Images from Hundreds of Organizations on Public GitHub Code Repositories
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1734

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