Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI ...
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) ...
From April 1, 2026, Google will block inactive developer tokens from uploading Customer Match data via the Google Ads API.