Thousands of exposed GitHub repositories, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot
Lasso extracted a list of repositories that were public at any point in 2024 and identified the repositories that had since been deleted or set to private. Using Bing’s caching mechanism, the company ...
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Thousands of GitHub repositories exposed via Microsoft Copilot
Copilot has access to private GitHub repositories, researchers found The repositories were public at some point, and Bing cached them The caching behavior is "acceptable" says Microsoft Thousands ...
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, ...
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It was pointed out that repositories that were supposed to be private on GitHub were made public through Microsoft's AI assistant 'Copilot'
Lasso then wondered, 'If Bing was indexing private GitHub repositories that were once public, could they be accessed via Microsoft's Copilot?' As a result, Copilot was able to output data from ...