Scotiabank credentials spill onto open internet due to internal source code.
Exclusive Scotiabank
leaked online a trove of its internal source code, as well as some of
its private login keys to backend systems, The Register can reveal. Over
the past 24 hours, the Canadian financial
giant has torn down GitHub repositories, inadvertently left open to the
public, that contained this sensitive information, after The
Register raised the alarm. These repositories featured, among other
things, software blueprints and access keys for a foreign
exchange rate system, mobile application code, and login credentials
for services and database instances: a potential gold mine of
vulnerabilities for criminals and hackers to exploit.
Source: The Register
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