If your Android app uses a third party web service with an API key, where should you store that API key, so that hackers can't high-jack your account.

A DOGE staffer with access to the private information on millions of Americans held by the U.S. government reportedly exposed a private API key used for interacting with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot.

Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs published a report on Monday indicating that, over the weekend, Elez published a private API key to GitHub that would allow users to "directly interact" with ...

Flaws in the API used by Symantec partners would have allowed an attacker to retrieve certificates, including private keys, security researcher Chris Byrne said in a Facebook post published over ...

DOGE staff posted private API keys for internal use by xAI on GitHub, allowing anyone to directly access xAI's AI models This article, originally posted in Japanese on 14:39 Jul 16, 2025, may ...

A stolen Twilio API key could be used to call expensive premium rate phone numbers or broadcast a deluge of SMS spam. Even if you’re working on a private repository, you still shouldn’t bake ...

Public/private API key exchange While HTTPS securely hides the API key during transmission, retrieving the API key from the phone so the HTTPS call can be made is a real problem for developers.

Infamous DOGE employee Marko Elez allegedly published a private API key for a large number of xAI LLMs.