{
  "id": 174394,
  "title": "Leaked n8n API Tokens Exposed Live Instances to Credential Theft",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/leaked-n8n-api-tokens-exposed-live-instances-to-credential-theft",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-05T10:35:29.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/leaked-n8n-api-tokens-exposed-live.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "GitGuardian researchers found 321 n8n instances accepting API tokens exposed in public GitHub commits and demonstrated four ways attackers could use them to access sensitive data and downstream credentials without exploiting a software vulnerability. We scanned public GitHub commits for exposed n8n API tokens and identified 4,576 unique credentials associated with 1,255 hostnames. Of the 896",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}