diff --git a/detect_secrets/core/scan.py b/detect_secrets/core/scan.py
index f84d53c3c..2f9627662 100644
--- a/detect_secrets/core/scan.py
+++ b/detect_secrets/core/scan.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import subprocess
+from functools import lru_cache
 from typing import Any
 from typing import cast
 from typing import Generator
@@ -24,6 +25,18 @@
 from .log import log
 from .plugins import Plugin
 from .potential_secret import PotentialSecret
+from detect_secrets.util.filetype import determine_file_type
+from detect_secrets.util.filetype import FileType
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+def read_raw_lines(file_name: str) -> List[str]:
+    try:
+        with open(file_name) as f:
+            return f.readlines()
+    except IOError:
+        log.debug(f"Can't open file {file_name}")
+        return []
 
 
 def get_files_to_scan(
@@ -307,7 +320,7 @@ def _process_line_based_plugins(
     filename: str,
 ) -> Generator[PotentialSecret, None, None]:
     line_content = [line[1] for line in lines]
-
+    raw_code_snippet_lines = read_raw_lines(filename)
     # NOTE: We iterate through lines *then* plugins, because we want to quit early if any of the
     # filters return True.
     for line_number, line in lines:
@@ -327,25 +340,33 @@ def _process_line_based_plugins(
         ):
             continue
 
-        yield from (
-            secret
-            for plugin in get_plugins()
+        for plugin in get_plugins():
             for secret in _scan_line(
-                plugin=plugin,
-                filename=filename,
-                line=line,
-                line_number=line_number,
-                context=code_snippet,
-            )
-            if not _is_filtered_out(
-                required_filter_parameters=['context'],
-                filename=secret.filename,
-                secret=secret.secret_value,
-                plugin=plugin,
-                line=line,
-                context=code_snippet,
-            )
-        )
+                    plugin=plugin,
+                    filename=filename,
+                    line=line,
+                    line_number=line_number,
+                    context=code_snippet,
+            ):
+                if not _is_filtered_out(
+                        required_filter_parameters=['context'],
+                        filename=secret.filename,
+                        secret=secret.secret_value,
+                        plugin=plugin,
+                        line=line,
+                        context=code_snippet,
+                ):
+                    if determine_file_type(filename) == FileType.YAML and secret.secret_value:
+                        # YAML specifically has multi-line string parsing that groups the
+                        # different lines as 1.
+                        # Calculate actual line number in case of YAML multi-line string
+                        actual_line_number = line_number
+                        for i, l in enumerate(raw_code_snippet_lines[actual_line_number - 1:]):
+                            if secret.secret_value in l:
+                                actual_line_number += i
+                                break
+                        secret.line_number = actual_line_number
+                    yield secret
 
 
 def _scan_line(
diff --git a/test_data/scan_test_multiline.yaml b/test_data/scan_test_multiline.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad57eb1b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_data/scan_test_multiline.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+configuration:
+  datadogAgent:
+    enabled: true
+    name: name
+
+image:
+  repository: gcr.io/some/scheduler
+  pullPolicy: Always
+
+schedule: "* * * * *"
+
+cmdList: "curl --retry-connrefused --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 -X POST http://someone:someone@my.cluster.local/v1/?event=EXPIRE_SYNC&days=1|1440 \
+         ||curl --retry-connrefused --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 -X POST http://anotherone:anotherone@my.cluster.local/v1/?hours=1|60"
diff --git a/tests/core/scan_test.py b/tests/core/scan_test.py
index 566e2e463..cb069690a 100644
--- a/tests/core/scan_test.py
+++ b/tests/core/scan_test.py
@@ -96,6 +96,19 @@ def test_handles_binary_files_gracefully():
 
             assert not list(scan.scan_file(f.name))
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def test_multi_line_results_accuracy():
+        file_name = 'test_data/scan_test_multiline.yaml'
+        results = list(scan.scan_file(file_name))
+        assert len(results) > 0, f'Expected to find secrets in {file_name}'
+        lines_with_findings = set()
+        for secret in results:
+            if secret.line_number not in lines_with_findings:
+                lines_with_findings.add(secret.line_number)
+            else:
+                assert secret.line_number not in lines_with_findings,\
+                    'Found multiple secrets on the same line number'
+
 
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
 def configure_plugins():