GitGuardian 2026 State of Secrets Sprawl: AI-co-authored commits leak at 2x rate

GitGuardian’s 2026 report found 29 million new hardcoded secrets in public GitHub repos in 2025, up 34% year-over-year. Commits co-authored by AI coding tools leaked secrets at roughly twice the baseline rate, highlighting elevated risk as teams adopt Copilot, Claude Code, and similar assistants without updated secret hygiene practices.