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Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys


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2025-11-25 17:22:57
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New research has found that organizations in various sensitive sectors, including governments, telecoms, and critical infrastructure, are pasting passwords and credentials into online tools like JSONformatter and CodeBeautify that are used to format and validate code.
Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs said it captured a dataset of over 80,000 files on these sites, uncovering thousands of



Source: TheHackerNews
Source Link: https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/years-of-jsonformatter-and-codebeautify.html


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