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Blacksmith discloses unauthorized access to CI job-log storage

According to a post on X by @useblacksmith, the company's security team detected and contained unauthorized access on November 5, 2026 to the system storing console output, or job logs, for CI jobs on Blacksmith runners. Access was revoked the same day, and a later re-entry attempt was blocked. The post is the company's own disclosure and does not include a count of affected customers.

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According to a post on X by @useblacksmith, the company's security team detected and contained unauthorized access on November 5, 2026 to the system storing console output, or job logs, for CI jobs on Blacksmith runners. Access was revoked the same day, and a later re-entry attempt was blocked. The post is the company's own disclosure and does not include a count of affected customers.

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Blacksmith says that on Nov 5, 2026 its security team detected and contained unauthorized access to the system storing console output (job logs) for CI jobs on Blacksmith runners. Access was revoked the same day and a later re-entry attempt was blocked. Treat this as the company’s own disclosure; no...

Teams that run CI jobs on Blacksmith runners should review what their job logs contain, since the post notes that CI logs often hold secrets and tokens. Because the post gives no customer-impact count, it is not yet clear from this source whether any individual account was affected. Watch for follow-up details from Blacksmith on what was accessed and who was impacted.

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