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CircleCI Incident Highlights Cloud Platform Querying Struggles for Compromised Credentials

On January 4, 2023 CircleCI reported a security incident had occurred. CircleCI recommended, “out of an abundance of caution … to immediately rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI.” It was assumed that a hardcoded access ID associated with CircleCI was being used to perform unauthorized actions within CircleCI customers’ cloud environments, such as creating new users, access keys, cloud instances, and serverless functions, as well as modifying existing cloud resources....

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