AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of external services. Every integration point requires an identity. Most organizations are handling this badly, and the evidence is in the code. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl Report found 28,649,024 new secrets exposed in public GitHub commits across 2025, a 34% year-over-year increase and the largest annual jump in the report’s … More → The post 29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control appeared first on Help Net Security .