Data Breach Stories

7 disasters tagged #data-breach

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Lovable-showcased EdTech app found riddled with 16 security flaws exposing 18,000 users

Feb 2026

A security researcher found 16 vulnerabilities - six critical - in an EdTech app featured on Lovable's showcase page, which had over 100,000 views and real users from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and universities across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The AI-generated authentication logic was backwards, blocking logged-in users while granting anonymous visitors full access. 18,697 user records including names, emails, and roles were accessible without authentication, along with the ability to modify student grades, delete accounts, and send bulk emails. Lovable initially closed the researcher's support ticket without response.

Facepalmby AI platform
18,697 user records exposed including students at major universities; student grades modifiable and accounts deletable without authentication
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Infostealer harvests OpenClaw AI agent tokens, crypto keys, and behavioral soul files

Feb 2026

Hudson Rock discovered that Vidar infostealer malware successfully exfiltrated an OpenClaw user's complete agent configuration, including gateway authentication tokens, cryptographic keys for secure operations, and the agent's soul.md behavioral guidelines file. OpenClaw stores these sensitive files in predictable, unencrypted locations accessible to any local process. With stolen gateway tokens, attackers could remotely access exposed OpenClaw instances or impersonate authenticated clients making requests to the AI gateway. Researchers characterized this as marking the transition from stealing browser credentials to harvesting the identities of personal AI agents.

Facepalmby AI agent platform
Any OpenClaw user infected with commodity infostealers has full agent identity compromised; gateway tokens enable remote impersonation; cryptographic keys and behavioral guidelines exposed
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AI agents leak secrets through messaging app link previews

Feb 2026

PromptArmor demonstrated that AI agents in messaging platforms can exfiltrate sensitive data without any user interaction. Malicious prompts trick AI agents into generating URLs with embedded secrets (API keys, credentials), and the messaging platform's automatic link preview feature fetches these URLs, completing the exfiltration before the user even sees the message. Microsoft Teams with Copilot Studio was the most affected, with Discord, Slack, Telegram, and Snapchat also vulnerable.

Facepalmby AI agent platform
Organizations using AI agents in messaging platforms; API keys, credentials, and sensitive data exfiltrable without user clicks across Microsoft Teams, Discord, Slack, Telegram, and Snapchat
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135,000+ OpenClaw AI agent instances exposed to the internet

Feb 2026

SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team discovered over 135,000 OpenClaw AI agent instances exposed to the public internet due to a default configuration that binds to all network interfaces. Approximately 50,000 instances were vulnerable to known RCE flaws (CVE-2026-25253, CVE-2026-25157, CVE-2026-24763), and over 53,000 were linked to previous breaches. Separately, Bitdefender found approximately 17% of skills in the OpenClaw marketplace were malicious, delivering credential-stealing malware.

Catastrophicby Platform default configuration
135,000+ exposed OpenClaw instances; 50,000+ vulnerable to RCE; attackers gain access to credentials, filesystem, messaging platforms, and personal data
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AI chatbot app leaked 300 million private conversations

Jan 2026

Chat & Ask AI, a popular AI chatbot wrapper app with 50+ million users, had a misconfigured Firebase backend that exposed 300 million messages from over 25 million users. The exposed data included complete chat histories with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini -- including discussions of self-harm, drug production, and hacking. A broader scan found 103 of 200 iOS apps had similar Firebase misconfigurations.

Catastrophicby Platform Operator
300 million messages from 25+ million users exposed; sensitive personal conversations including self-harm and illegal activity discussions leaked
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n8n AI workflow platform hit by CVSS 10.0 RCE vulnerability

Jan 2026

The popular AI workflow automation platform n8n disclosed a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-21858) allowing unauthenticated remote code execution on self-hosted instances. With over 25,000 n8n hosts exposed to the internet, the flaw enabled attackers to access sensitive files, forge admin sessions, and execute arbitrary commands. This followed two other critical RCE flaws patched in the same period, highlighting systemic security issues in AI automation platforms.

Catastrophicby Platform Operator
25,000+ internet-exposed n8n instances vulnerable to full system compromise; arbitrary file access, authentication bypass, and command execution possible without authentication.
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Lovable AI builder shipped apps with public storage buckets

May 2025

Reporting showed apps generated with Lovable exposed code and user-uploaded assets via publicly readable storage buckets; fixes required private-by-default configs and hardening.

Facepalmby Developer
Customer app data and source artifacts exposed until configs fixed.
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