One of the affected developers shared the incident on Reddit. According to the post, the Google Cloud API key was compromised between February 11 and February ...
Security researchers have found nearly 3000 publicly visible Google API keys authorizing Gemini. This allows abusive access.
API key exploitation is more than hypothetical. In a different context, a student who reportedly exposed a GCP API key on GitHub last June was left nursing a $55,444 bill (later waived by Google) ...