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The things that go on at small SaaS companies would horrify many. One SaaS company I worked for had a "god-mode" password hard coded into the source code. It was visible in plain text in the source, and you could login as any customer if you knew this master password. Of course, this was not logged anywhere. When employees left, they'd change the password and deploy a new build.

looking closely at that I'm suspicious that lapsus$ is playing up what were perhaps trivial or ephemeral keys that were non-sensitive ... eg: test / dev / debug instances etc.

The reason I think that is because if they really had keys for production machines it seems very unlikely they wouldn't have used them to produce some more damaging collateral than they've presented.

DPL scanners in Slack, anyone? Figured Okta would definitely have those.

We get alerts when folks are sharing tutorial code with fake keys like DEADBEEF in them. It's nice to know DPL works, if you use it.