Summary
Give leaked-secret reports a path to the right team
Bug bounty programs are selective by design. Reports that fall outside their scope or land with a platform triager can be closed before anyone on the security team sees them. Leaked credentials hit every one of those failure modes.
The fix is a disclosure channel: an easy-to-find reporting path, a policy that accepts out-of-scope and anonymous reports, and an internal playbook that can revoke a credential rather than just delete it.
In this guide, you'll learn:
- What a disclosure channel is
- The five failure modes GitGuardian researchers hit when reporting leaked credentials through bounty programs
- How to build a six-move secrets-leak playbook
- What a comprehensive disclosure policy requires
