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Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

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Re: Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

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I've accidentally pushed a personal PAT(ro) to both Github and gist because of poor hygiene in personal projects, both times Github dropped the PAT and notified me.

Yeah I'm impressed they even managed to publish a personal token. My experience with GitHub's automated token recognition has also been positive (tho the tokens were never of any consequence)

Re: Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

#113

>When reached by TechCrunch on December 5, Home Depot spokesperson George Lane acknowledged receipt of our email but did not respond to follow-up emails asking for comment. The exposed token is no longer online, and the researcher said the token’s access was revoked soon after our outreach. > >We also asked Lane if Home Depot has the technical means, such as logs, to determine if anyone else used the token during the…

I mean you can't fault them for that approach.

Obviously we would all like a full post mortem from the home dept side, but in today's litigious shareholder-value-driven world their response is the correct one.

Re: Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

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post #34

I’m surprised that GitHub, OpenAI etc. doesn’t have automation to scan the usual surfaces for hashes of their access tokens. It seems like a cheap and simple thing to offer your customers a little extra safety. Anybody interested in starting a platform agnostic service to do this?

GitHub does! They tell you when you pushed something dangerous almost right away.

GitHub Advanced Security blocks the push, I believe.

Re: Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

#116

Given the absolute state of their website on mobile it's hardly surprising. It's faster to find an employee and ask them where an item is at instead of waiting for the search to finish, see that it the "current store" now points to a random location somewhere in a different state, pick the correct store and re-do the search

Not as bad as Costco. Their app and website are still stuck in 90s.

Re: Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

#117

Given the absolute state of their website on mobile it's hardly surprising. It's faster to find an employee and ask them where an item is at instead of waiting for the search to finish, see that it the "current store" now points to a random location somewhere in a different state, pick the correct store and re-do the search

If you go to the home depot page for torque wrenches and click the filter for drive size, you get this list: 1/2 in 1/4 in 1 in 3/8 in 3/4 in Specialty Here is the same list in decimal to make the insanity plainly obvious: 0.5 0.25 1 0.375 0.75 What sadistic lunatic made that sort order?! It's not based on size and it's not alphabetic.

This is sorted mostly alphabetically with an allowance for people being bad with fractions. That's my guess.

Re: Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

#118

Given the absolute state of their website on mobile it's hardly surprising. It's faster to find an employee and ask them where an item is at instead of waiting for the search to finish, see that it the "current store" now points to a random location somewhere in a different state, pick the correct store and re-do the search

Indeed, Home Depot's software is generally so bad. I remember around 2017/2018 time frame when they started showing up to big tech conferences (especially K8s and React.js conferences) really trying to modernize. I spent a few minutes talking to the people manning the booth (which were surprisingly high ranking in the company, at least by title), and came away thinking "I'm glad you're making an effort, but y'all rea…

I think they made some splashy hires at the time, and they contributed to the Google SRE workbook. Same as Walmart. They definitely tried. Corporate inertia is a killer.

Re: Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

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post #50

Man, a year to grab all the Home Depot 2x4s you want! Someone could have built a sphere with those.

I don't know how well lumber holds up to the bottom of the ocean

Pretty good actually. With the salt, lack of oxygen and pressure it can last quite a long time.
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