title: Why did GitHub add a personal access token, even if i didn't generate a new one?
body: <p>I Started using GitHub and Git on Windows 10 a few days ago, and created a bunch of private repositories on GitHub and local repositories with Git for testing purposes. The next Day, i get an e-mail that looks like this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>A personal access token (git: <a href="https://github.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/</a> on (my computer) at 09-apr-2019 19:00 with gist and repo scopes was recently added to your account. </p>
    
    <p>To see this and other security events for your account, visit <a href="https://github.com/settings/security" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/settings/security</a></p>
    
    <p>If you run into problems, please contact support by visiting ><a href="https://github.com/contact" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/contact</a></p>
    
    <p>Thanks,
    Your friends at GitHub</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But i haven't generated any PAT. It did this by itself. The question now is: <strong>Why is that? What is happening exactly? Is this normal or not? Have i messed up in some particular way?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have created my repos following some <a href="https://tutesfornewdevelopers.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/git-windows/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tutorials online</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I have searched this on google, without any luck so far. I have stumbled upon some <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51169954/vsts-keeps-generating-new-personal-access-tokens">threads</a> like this. The problem is similar, but it has to do with VS spamming new token PAT continuously. I haven't used VS and that is the only e-mail that i got so far. Nevertheless, is the closest to my actual problem. </p>
  
  <p>I have removed the token.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help.</p>