How I Made $64k from Deleted Files — A Bug Bounty Story
Bug BountyData LeaksAutomationCybersecurity
The author created an automation that cloned and scanned tens of thousands of public GitHub repositories to detect exposed secrets. For each repository, they restored deleted files, found dangling blobs, and decompressed .pack files to search for exposed API keys, tokens, and credentials. They ended up reporting several leaks and earned approximately $64,000 through bug bounties.