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The Anatomy of the Vercel Hack

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The Anatomy of the Vercel Hack

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A Vercel employee installed Contacts.ai via Google OAuth. That app had been compromised when one of its own employees downloaded a Roblox cheat that contained a backdoor. The attacker escalated privileges inside Vercel, then found database secrets stored in clear text — accessing every customer's data.