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DRAWAFISH.COM POSTMORTEM — AUG 3, 2025 INCIDENT

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The creator of DrawAFish.com, after getting Hacker News fame through vibe-coding and heavy reliance on Copilot, had a security incident involving username vandalism and offensive content due to a legacy password breach, lack of authentication in the username update API, and a JWT vulnerability.