If you use Windows, your old credentials may be stored in the Windows Credentials Manager. Open this service, look for the web credential used by Git and delete it. Then perform a new push to GitHub.

GitHub says that over 700,000 secrets across thousands of private repositories have been detected to date. If push protection is enabled, a scan will check for high-confidence leak patterns. If a ...

Cached GitHub Credentials. If you still have trouble authenticating to GitHub after you generated the personal access token, check to make sure the password isn’t cached anywhere. If you are on ...