Research reveals 2,863 public Google API keys can access Gemini endpoints, enabling data exposure and massive billing abuse.
API key exploitation is more than hypothetical. In a different context, a student who reportedly exposed a GCP API key on GitHub last June was left nursing a $55,444 bill (later waived by Google) ...
Claude Code flaws allow remote code execution and API key theft via untrusted repositories; three bugs fixed across 2025–2026 releases.