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Popular code formatting sites are exposing credentials and other secrets

Popular code formatting sites are exposing credentials and other secrets

Widely used code formatting sites JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are exposing sensitive credentials, API keys, private keys, configuration files and other secrets, watchTowr researchers discovered. The findings JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are free, web-based tools/services used by developers to make messy code easily readable, to validate it, or convert it. Users can also save the output code, so they can share it with others. (If you use JSON Formatter without logging in and save the output, it … More →
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