@julien_c: Happy to partner with @trufflesec to help them perform the largest secret scan of AI training data ever
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Truffle Security, in partnership with Julien Chaumond, conducted the largest secret scan of AI training data on HuggingFace, finding 221,303 live unique credentials across 6,003 public datasets.
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Happy to partner with @trufflesec to help them perform the largest secret scan of AI training data ever ๐
Truffle Security (@trufflesec): We scanned HuggingFace. ๐๐๐
This was the largest secret scan of AI training data ever: 7.6 PB. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐Found 221,303 live unique credentials in 6,003 public datasets
โ๏ธCloud keys, live DBs, API keys worth ~$920K/yr.
โ ๏ธTraining data has no undo: one key hit
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