AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots
Thirteen thousand internal screenshots from 343 technology companies are sitting in public GitHub repositories because a coding agent could not attach an image to a private pull request.
Cybernews reported that the exposed material includes customer records, billing data, payment system screens, and unreleased product features. The agents appear to have completed the task using access they already held, but the route they took exposed data publicly.
That last detail is the story. When a private repository could not render the image, the agents created public ones, mostly under employees’ personal accounts. No policy forbade it in a form software could act on, and no control stood between the task and the result.
It would be comforting to call this an outlier. A survey of more than 900 executives and technical practitioners says it is closer to the norm. Gravitee’s State of AI Agent Security 2026 reportfound that only...
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