diff --git a/pkg/detectors/float/float.go b/pkg/detectors/float/float.go
index 4be13b0ba4fb..211911932007 100644
--- a/pkg/detectors/float/float.go
+++ b/pkg/detectors/float/float.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ var (
 	client = common.SaneHttpClient()
 
 	// Make sure that your group is surrounded in boundary characters such as below to reduce false positives.
-	keyPat = regexp.MustCompile(detectors.PrefixRegex([]string{"float"}) + `\b([a-zA-Z0-9-._+=/]{59,60})\b`)
+	keyPat = regexp.MustCompile(detectors.PrefixRegex([]string{"float"}) + `\b([a-f0-9]{16}[A-Za-z0-9+/]{42,43}=)`)
 )
 
 // Keywords are used for efficiently pre-filtering chunks.