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The lie was:

We also wanted to address a question regarding impact to environment variables. While we confirmed that the threat actor had access to encrypted Heroku customer secrets stored in config var, the secrets are encrypted at rest and the threat actor did not access the encryption key necessary to decrypt config var secrets.

https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413

Nowhere in that did it clarify it was speaking of app but not pipeline env vars. They had plenty of time to author that post too. Make sure you rotate those app env vars anyways as this somehow appears to be getting worse by the week.

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