The now-defunct B2B marketing leads service LimeLeads suffered a data breach in August 2019 after an Elasticsearch server was left exposed and unsecured. The incident exposed tens of millions of records of largely corporate contact data, covering 17.8M unique email addresses. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset on 22 Sep 2026. The article…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand and an enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) over governance failures in its use of the third-party Auror retail crime intelligence-sharing platform. Between March 2023 and September 2024, MPS officers and staff used Auror without formal approval, …
Hakai Security released Chupabase, a Python tool that finds and demonstrates insecure Supabase backend configurations in applications generated by the vibe coding platform Lovable. It parses the app's JavaScript bundles (and the sw.js Service Worker precache manifest) to recover the Supabase URL, the public anonKey and the API endpoint ma…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and issued an enforcement notice. Between March 2023 and September 2024, officers registered about 500 free accounts on the retail crime platform Auror without formal procurement, a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) or data-sharing …
AI-assisted "vibe coding" is lowering the barrier to app development, but it is also producing apps with common security oversights that app marketplaces do not necessarily flag. The article cites a report that 84% of developers were using or planning to use AI tools, and a Lovable-hosted app in which a researcher found 16 vulnerabilities…