TLDR Dev · MISCELLANEOUS

HUGE DATABREACH OF VIBECODED SYSTEM IN MY CITY!

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Localmind, a software company, suffered a massive data breach due to critical security flaws in its system from supposed vibe-coding. Creating a demo account granted full root access to servers, exposing data from over 150 organizations, including banks and energy companies. However, since passwords within their internal knowledge database were stored in plain text, commenters believe that this issue was due to human error, as AI would not recommend storing passwords in plain text.