We find them
first.
Security teams protect their perimeter. Data escapes anyway. Exploit Shield hunts publicly exposed credentials, tokens, and secrets across GitHub, Postman, GitLab, and Docker Hub, so your team finds them before an attacker does.
10 months of field research
organizations disclosed to
active leaks found per Fortune 50 company, on average
combined revenue at risk
financial services organizations
secret types monitored
downstream orgs affected through vendor leaks
Organizations Exploit Shield has disclosed findings to
- Fortune 50 Retailer/
- Top 5 U.S. Health Insurer/
- Global Telecom Provider/
- Federal Government Agency/
- Top 10 U.S. Bank/
- Fortune 100 Logistics Co./
- Major Credit Union/
- Global Enterprise Software Co./
- Regional Health System/
- Top 3 U.S. Property Insurer/
- National Defense Contractor/
- Tier 1 Commercial Bank/
- Top 5 U.S. Airline/
- Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical/
- Municipal Government Agency/
- Global Asset Manager/
- Top 10 P&C Insurer/
- Fortune 100 Technology Co./
- U.S. Credit Card Issuer/
- Regional Community Bank/
- Big-Box Retailer/
- Global Automotive Manufacturer/
- Major Healthcare Provider/
- Fortune 500 Energy Company/
- Fortune 50 Retailer/
- Top 5 U.S. Health Insurer/
- Global Telecom Provider/
- Federal Government Agency/
- Top 10 U.S. Bank/
- Fortune 100 Logistics Co./
- Major Credit Union/
- Global Enterprise Software Co./
- Regional Health System/
- Top 3 U.S. Property Insurer/
- National Defense Contractor/
- Tier 1 Commercial Bank/
- Top 5 U.S. Airline/
- Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical/
- Municipal Government Agency/
- Global Asset Manager/
- Top 10 P&C Insurer/
- Fortune 100 Technology Co./
- U.S. Credit Card Issuer/
- Regional Community Bank/
- Big-Box Retailer/
- Global Automotive Manufacturer/
- Major Healthcare Provider/
- Fortune 500 Energy Company/
How it works
From signal to a finding worth acting on.
Onboard
Define what matters and reduce noise. We align on the signal we should hunt for and the partners that expand your exposure surface.
Quality beats quantity. Tight inputs drive cleaner findings and fewer false positives.
- Keywords
- Product names, internal systems, and other identifiers unique to your organization.
- Domains
- Your primary domains, plus the subdomains you already know about.
- Third-party vendors
- The vendor domains that touch your environment, since their exposure becomes yours.
Discover
Exploit Shield continuously searches public sources and reduces raw results into high-signal candidates.
What remains is a shortlist worth triaging.
- Search
- Proprietary search across repositories, artifacts, collections, and code snippets.
- Enrichment
- Adds context around where a secret lives and what it actually exposes.
- Reduction
- Deduplication, scoring, and noise removed before anything reaches a human.
Triage
AI-only or human-supported
We determine what it is, who it impacts, and how bad it is.
The output is an actionable finding: assignable, investigable, and remediable.
- Impact
- What was exposed, and why it actually matters.
- Scope
- The systems, accounts, vendors, or business units it affects.
- Blast radius
- How your organization is exposed, and what an attacker could do with it.
Actionable intelligence
Not an alert. A finding.
Every disclosure arrives triaged and structured, showing who it affects, how it happened, and what it exposes.
Leak Summary
- Platform
- GitHub
- Repository Visibility
- Public
- First Observed
- Feb 18, 2026
- Risk Level
- High
- 6 API Keys
- 4 Credentials
- 3 OAuth Secrets
- 4 Internal URLs
Attribution
- Source Type
- Employee Repository
- Leak Vector
- Public Repo Commit
- Exposure Scope
- Multi-Organization
Case studies
What we've found in the field.
Incident · Financial Services
Gateway to Mass Exposure
- 23 Financial Institutions
- Shared Vendor
- 3 Years Public
Exploit Shield flagged a .properties file containing core banking credentials. In the same directory were 23 nearly identical configuration files, each named for a different financial institution, all with hard-coded credentials tied to core banking systems like Symitar and Fiserv DNA, alongside API keys connecting to Visa and Mastercard payment processors. The repository had been public from May 2022 to February 2025. None of the 23 credit unions detected it. Visa and Mastercard did not detect it. Bug bounty programs did not report it. The vendor was unaware.
"Holy s**, that’s all of our code. That’s not supposed to be public."
Vendor CTO, reached by phone after emails went unanswered. Repository taken down within the hour.
Every one of those 23 institutions had a security program. Several had recently completed penetration tests. None of them detected the exposure, because it did not exist on their infrastructure and had never appeared on a dark web forum. By every conventional measure, they were covered.
Read the full write-upIncident · Enterprise SaaS
Enterprise API Ecosystem Exposure
- Fortune 500
- Hundreds of API Credentials
- 12+ Months Public
A contractor’s public Postman workspace exposed application client IDs and client secrets tied to production APIs. In OAuth and OIDC flows, exposed client credentials allow an attacker to impersonate the application itself. The resulting access is long-lived, trusted, and difficult to distinguish from legitimate traffic.
The exposure persisted for over a year. The organization was unaware until Exploit Shield was engaged.
Incident · Healthcare
The 20-Year Admin Repository
- Healthcare Organization
- Domain Admin Credentials
- Public GitHub
OSINT surfaced a public repository tied to a long-tenured employee, a personal archive spanning roughly two decades of work. Inside: domain administrator credentials with unrestricted control, VPN-capable user credentials, service account credentials used for integrations, and data center backup credentials accessing production data.
The repository had been public for more than four months. No internal alerting triggered, because the artifact lived outside corporate identity, source control, and logging.
How we compare
Not another threat intel feed.
Most threat intelligence platforms watch the same breach dumps and dark web forums everyone else already monitors, scoped to the enterprise environment you already know about. Exploit Shield looks earlier and wider, including source code and intellectual property, not just credentials.
| Coverage Area | Traditional Threat Intel | Exploit Shield |
|---|---|---|
| Public breach dumps and dark web forums | Yes | – |
| Live public developer platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Postman, Docker Hub) | – | Yes |
| Source code and intellectual property exposure | – | Yes |
| Personal and vendor-owned accounts | – | Yes |
| Exposure outside your known enterprise environment | – | Yes |
When secrets and source code leak outside your environment, existing tools do not see it. Exploit Shield does.
Integrations
Delivered where your team already works.
Exploit Shield is not another dashboard your team has to monitor. Findings are structured and delivered into the systems your team already operates.
Additional SIEM, TIP, and workflow integrations are available. API-driven, and designed for mature security environments.
A note on AI
AI accelerates triage.
Humans make the call.
Exploit Shield uses AI to classify, enrich, and prioritize findings at scale. Every high-confidence finding is reviewed by a security analyst before disclosure. We do not send automated alerts. We send vetted intelligence. AI is a force multiplier, not a replacement for judgment.
The exposure exists right now in most organizations.
The question is whether anyone is looking for it before an attacker does. Run an Exploit Shield assessment to see what may already be exposed.
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