{
  "id": 17468419,
  "title": "\"Keys of the Departed\": Ghost Account Hunter - Uncovering the Dead Identities Still Haunting Our Systems",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/keys-of-the-departed-ghost-account-hunter-uncovering-the-dead",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-31T20:46:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/justsamridhi/keys-of-the-departed-ghost-account-hunter-uncovering-the-dead-identities-still-haunting-our-p4o"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine . What I Built When I first started thinking about the Ghost in the Machine challenge, I pictured something we rarely think about when discussing cybersecurity: an account nobody remembers creating, a deployment key nobody remembers owning, or a service account that continues working long after the…",
  "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."
}