Advertisement
Top
image credit: Pexels

Mintlify Data Breach Leads to Exposure of Customer GitHub Tokens

March 19, 2024

Mintlify helps developers generate code documentation. It requires access to the source code, such as GitHub repositories, to analyze it, understand its purpose, and create descriptions.

In an incident notice on its website, the San Francisco-based company says that 91 customer tokens were exposed in a data breach identified on March 1, when it received a report of the issue and discovered unauthorized requests to its servers.

“We noticed that some of these requests targeted sensitive API endpoints and were successful in their attempts. This unusual activity indicated that the actor behind these requests had possession of our private admin access tokens, granting them unauthorized access to our endpoints,” Mintlify says.

Read More on Security Week