Debian Buster Repository Error

The Debian Buster Foreman repositories seem to be throwing an error related to the signing key.

Err:9 http://deb.theforeman.org buster InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 6F8600B9563278F6 Foreman Automatic Signing Key (2016) packages@theforeman.org
Err:10 http://deb.theforeman.org plugins InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 6F8600B9563278F6 Foreman Automatic Signing Key (2016) packages@theforeman.org
Reading package lists… Done
W: GPG error: http://deb.theforeman.org buster InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 6F8600B9563278F6 Foreman Automatic Signing Key (2016) packages@theforeman.org
E: The repository ‘http://deb.theforeman.org buster InRelease’ is no longer signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: GPG error: http://deb.theforeman.org plugins InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 6F8600B9563278F6 Foreman Automatic Signing Key (2016) packages@theforeman.org
E: The repository ‘http://deb.theforeman.org plugins InRelease’ is no longer signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

Looks like your signing key expired.

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And they did re-issue it with a new one which resolves the problem.

So I had to re-run the command
wget -q https://deb.theforeman.org/pubkey.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -