The Defiant reports that Anthropic's Claude Code team has discovered 1,379 secrets, including passwords and tokens, in saved command approvals on GitHub. They are investigating safeguards, such as built-in secret scanning, to prevent future leaks.
Based on the The Defiant report; not independently verified.
Source published: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 17:40:10 GMT
[Read the original report](https://thedefiant.io/frontier/ai/claude-code-approval-files-expose-1-379-secrets-on-github)
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