Researcher scans Gitee, finds 26,400 still-valid credentials
What happened
On October 28, 2026, Hacker News' front page reported that independent security researcher Ben Zimmermann scanned 7,256,531 public repositories on code hosting platform Gitee and found 26,400 credentials that were verified as still valid. The report states the figure is deduplicated by credential value, not a raw count of occurrences. The report discloses only the scan scope, the deduplication basis and the number of valid credentials; it does not say when the scan ran, what types of credentials were found, or what follow-up action was taken.
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- Hacker News front page26,400 live credentials found scanning 7.25M repos on China's Gitee
独立安全研究者 Ben Zimmermann 扫描了 Gitee 的 7,256,531 个公开仓库，发现按凭据值去重后的 26,400 个经验证仍有效的凭据。
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