What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage
Xebia
APRIL 5, 2023
I heard multiple times that AWS scans public GitHub repositories for AWS credentials and informs its users of the leaked credentials. So I am curious to see this for myself, so I decided to intentionally leak AWS credentials to a Public GitHub repository. And show you the steps I took and how I got informed about the leaked credentials. Setting up the credentials I created a IAM user in my AWS account named test-user and generated an access key and secret for this user and attached a very limite
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