Generative AI Security: Are Your Developers Pasting Secrets Into LLMs?

TL;DR 81% jump in AI-service leaks: GitGuardian detected over 1.27 million leaked secrets tied to AI services in 2025, an 81% jump from the previous year, with AI-assisted code leaking secrets at roughly twice the GitHub-wide rate. Hundreds of incidents in weeks: One customer deployed GitGuardian behind their internal AI gateway and surfaced hundreds of secret incidents within weeks, a significant share valid at detection, none of which ever touched a git repository. Four-step scan via Custom Source: The AI gateway forwards each payload to GitGuardian's scan API tagged with a Custom Source UUI
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