A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform

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Post by bishwasbh » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 4:12 AM UTC

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
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Post by EdwardDiego » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:01 AM UTC

A frigging Roblox cheat...

And I thought it was bad when my son got compromised by a Roblox cheat, but they only they grabbed his Gamepass cookies and bought 4 Minecraft licenses, which MS quickly refunded...

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Post by jesse_dot_id » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:02 AM UTC

> How many developers do you think knew that checkbox existed? How many assumed their database credentials and API keys were encrypted by default?

If I don't see asterisks, I'm not hitting save on the field with a secret in it. Maybe they were setting them programmatically? They should definitely still be looking to pass some kind of a secret flag, though. This is a weird problem for a company like Vercel to have.

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Post by apgwoz » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:09 AM UTC

jesse_dot_id wrote: post #3

> How many developers do you think knew that checkbox existed? How many assumed their database credentials and API keys were encrypted by default? If I don't see asterisks, I'm not hitting save on the field with a secret in it. Maybe they were setting them programmatically? They should definitely still be looking to pass some kind of a secret flag, though. This is a weird problem for a company like Vercel to have.

You pretty much have to assume someone is going to put sensitive data in an input like this. Encryption by default is the only sensible choice.

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Post by ethin » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:13 AM UTC

This looks really really AI-generated even if the author did try to hide it by making some grammar elements improper. Idk if that diminishes it's accuracy though.

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Post by varun_ch » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:19 AM UTC

Context.ai seems like it was the SPOF. By definition it has a lot of your data, and they didn’t secure it properly.

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Post by R41 » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:20 AM UTC

good article, these AI products are crazy supply chain risks.

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Post by mudkipdev » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:26 AM UTC

I'm getting a "failed to verify your browser" error on this article

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463

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Post by ryanisnan » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:29 AM UTC

Convenience is our Achilles heel, as a society.

We'll keep dangerous devices like the SuperBox in our homes, if it helps us get access to free movies and tv.

We'll use single-use plastics, even if we know they're bad for the environment, because they're just so damn easy.

We'll let AI run that thing for us, because it's just too easy.

A whole generation has grown up without knowing what it was like to infect your computer with AIDS trying to download an MP3, and it shows. That caution will come back, just at a terrible cost.