negativeSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News• 2026-07-14T14:32:48+05:30

xAI's Grok Build Exposes Full Git Repositories in Cloud Storage Uploads

#ai #data privacy #cloud security #credential security #software security

xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was found to upload entire Git repositories, including full commit history, to xAI's Google Cloud Storage, exceeding necessary data transfer for coding tasks. The issue was later mitigated server-side, but concerns remain about data privacy and unintended code exposure.

xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was uploading entire Git repositories, full commit history and all, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI, not just the files a coding task needed.

A researcher publishing as cereblab, testing version 0.2.93, captured one of those uploads, cloned the git bundle out of the intercepted request, and pulled back a file the agent had been told in plain terms not

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