CISA, the federal cybersecurity agency, suffered a breach when a contractor employee uploaded sensitive passwords and cloud access keys to a public GitHub repository — and the agency discovered it lacked its own incident response plan, forcing them to build one on the fly while the breach was still active. The irony is sharp: CISA spends years advising other organizations to have playbooks ready, but wasn't prepared itself. This matters because it exposed cloud infrastructure credentials and revealed a gap in federal security readiness at the agency responsible for defending US critical infrastructure. What the post doesn't mention: CISA has since issued detailed guidance on the incident and lawmakers have begun pressing for accountability, but the agency's own playbook quality and whether this affected other federal systems remains unclear.