AI Coding Tools Are Doubling Secret Leak Rates — What the 2026 GitGuardian Report Means for You
TL;DR GitGuardian dropped their State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report on March 17th. The headline number: 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets pushed to public GitHub repos in 2025. That’s a 34% year-over-year increase — the largest single-year jump they’ve ever recorded. The culprit they’re pointing at? AI coding assistants. Commits made with AI help leak secrets at 2x the baseline rate. Claude Code specifically sits at a 3.2% leak rate. ...