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incidents/AIR-2025-0171

Live API Keys Discovered in LLM Training Data Archive

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityData leakSupply chain

Security researchers found thousands of live API keys and authentication credentials inside a web archive used for training large language models. The exposed secrets created risks for unauthorized access and downstream service compromises.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Data leakprimary
    Training data, chat logs, system prompts, model weights or other AI-system data exposed.
  • Supply chain
    Malicious or backdoored models, poisoned packages, unsafe deserialization and other compromised AI dependencies.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
OpenAI, Microsoft, Open-weight model
products
Common Crawl, Azure OpenAI Service
incident date
28 Feb 2025
first reported
28 Feb 2025
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
credential-leak · training-data · common-crawl · api-keys
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-02-28
    Alleged Inclusion of 12,000 Live API Keys in LLM Training Data Reportedly Poses Security Risks
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/956

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