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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by pyre on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:54PM (#13653886)
It's also possible that they just scrape the Github firehose for common patterns like

  AWS_SECRET_KEY="FOOBAR"
and send a message to the committer's email (since you presumably used a correct/valid email in the git commit).
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