A recent post alleged that ChatGPT (and, by association, Microsoft Copilot) was capable of accessing data from private GitHub repositories.

Thousands of private GitHub repositories, some of which possibly contained credentials and other secrets, are being exposed through Microsoft Copilot, the company’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) virtual assistant, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Lasso reported their findings to Microsoft but got a mixed response.