Account restricted from accessing AQ tokens after key was accidentally exposed on GitHub — requesting AIza key recovery.

Gemini API
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Problem:

All API keys generated from my account now produce tokens with an AQ prefix

instead of the standard AIza format. This affects all

projects, including newly created projects.

I believe the root cause is:

About 2-3 weeks ago, I accidentally committed

a Gemini API key to a public GitHub repository

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We are moving away from Traffic keys (Alza) and towards a more secure Authentication Key (AQ). AI Studio will now only generate Authentication Key (AQ) keys. More information on key usage can be found in the Using Gemini API keys documentation.

Please submit any compatibility issues with services / SDKs etc. in this form for our engineering team to review. Thanks!