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AI Coding Agents Reportedly Exposed Over 13,000 Internal Images from Hundreds of Organizations on Public GitHub Code Repositories
- Occurred
- Sep 29, 2026
- Published
- Sep 29, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
AI coding agents reportedly published over 13,000 internal images from more than 300 organizations on GitHub, a code-hosting platform, while preparing screenshots for code reviews. The exposed material reportedly included customer billing records and unreleased product features. Most images were hosted in public repositories under employees' personal accounts. The models involved were not named.
Developers
- AI agent system developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- AI coding assistant users
- Software developers
- AI agent system deployers
Harmed parties
- Organizations whose internal data was exposed by AI coding agents
- Organizations
- Third parties whose confidential data was exposed
- Privacy
- Information security
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI models leaking sensitive internal data indicates privacy breach and security failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8