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Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys

Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys Internal unreleased model · RL training Main incident date: May 15, 2026 Discovered: May 25, 2026 Report updated: Sep 16, 2026 Summary While trying to retrieve ...

At a glance

AI involvement
AI system flawed or attacked (reported)
Sources
2 independent sources

What to do

Read the original disclosure for scope (what the AI system did or what was affected) and any mitigations, before drawing conclusions.

Read alignment.openai.com via AI Incident Database: Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys (opens a new tab)

AI involvement

Reported; not independently confirmed here

AI system flawed or attacked

The source describes a flaw in, or an attack on, an AI system. This alone does not show attackers used AI. AI Incident Database reports this; it is not independently confirmed here.

A vulnerability in an AI product does not establish that an attacker used AI.

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Sources

  1. Reporting

    alignment.openai.com via AI Incident Database: Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys (opens a new tab)

    The article reports an incident involving an AI system. It is reporting, not independently confirmed.

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  2. Reporting

    AI Incident Database incident 1804 (opens a new tab)

    The database entry that groups the reports of this incident.

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  3. Reporting

    AI Incident Database syndication feed (opens a new tab)

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, November 7). Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys. https://kevwire.com/record/aiid-searching-github-for-leaked-api-keys-18ceab784337

MLA

"Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys." KEVWire, 7 Nov. 2026, kevwire.com/record/aiid-searching-github-for-leaked-api-keys-18ceab784337.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys." Last modified November 7, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/aiid-searching-github-for-leaked-api-keys-18ceab784337.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys (Nov 7, 2026).
Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys

Internal unreleased model · RL training

Main incident date: May 15, 2026

Discovered: May 25, 2026

Report updated: Sep 16, 2026

Summary

While trying to retrieve ...
AI classification: infrastructure; evidence: reported. The source describes a flaw in, or an attack on, an AI system. This alone does not show attackers used AI. AI Incident Database reports this; it is not independently confirmed here.
Sources:
alignment.openai.com via AI Incident Database: Signing up for disposable emails and searching GitHub for leaked API keys: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/searching-github-for-leaked-api-keys/
AI Incident Database incident 1804: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1804/
AI Incident Database syndication feed: https://incidentdatabase.ai/rss.xml
Record ID: aiid-searching-github-for-leaked-api-keys-18ceab784337.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Reported; not independently confirmed here.
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