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GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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How to Remove Your Old Key From Github

This change only impacts git operations over SSH using RSA web traffic through which is HTTPS is not affected. This will happen if you get this particular message if you connect it to Github and try to push something or clone a repo you might have get this message for those listening on the podcast i'm gonna read this out loud warning remote host identification has changed. Someone could be doing something nasty someone could be eavesdropping on you right now man in the middle attack It's also possible that the host key has been changed so github in this blog walks you through how to remove your old public key.

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