coandalimited.co.uk

RSA private key leaked without the BEGIN/END headers

$ dig TXT coandalimited.co.uk

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;coandalimited.co.uk. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:

coandalimited.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "MIIEvQIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCBKcwggSjAgEAAoIBAQC...[REDACTED — full RSA private key material]"

What Happened

Multiple large Base64 strings starting with `MIIEvQIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0...` appear in this domain's TXT records. The `MIIE` prefix is the standard ASN.1 DER encoding signature for a PKCS#8 RSA private key. The admin stripped the `-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----` headers — perhaps thinking that removed the sensitive parts — but left the actual key material fully intact and globally readable.

Full TXT Record Value

MIIEvQIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCBKcwggSjAgEAAoIBAQC...[REDACTED — full RSA private key material]