Slack bot token leakage exposing business critical information

Found on Detectify on Thursday, 28 April 2016
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The problem is that many developers tend to include Slack tokens – credentials tied to their personal Slack account – directly in the code when building Slack bots. These projects are also shared publicly on GitHub. Now, because the code contains these tokens, the developer is actually giving anyone – that finds the token – access to the developer’s company’s internal chats and files on Slack.

People check all and everything into GitHub. Private SSH keys are there, password list, and lots of other interesting information.