GitHub Personal Access Tokens are stolen and exploited without detection, compromising production infrastructure

DevOps teams and platform engineers face a critical security vulnerability where GitHub PATs can be exfiltrated and used to gain unauthorized admin access to production environments, causing data breaches and service disruptions. Current solutions fail because PATs lack granular permission controls, audit trails are insufficient, and token rotation is manual and inconsistent. Organizations discover compromises only after attackers have already caused damage.