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This incident underscores a critical security challenge emerging from the rapid adoption of AI-assisted development, where "vibe-coded" applications frequently suffer from misconfigurations that expose sensitive user data. The surge in Supabase-hosted databases leaking millions of records highlights how generative tools can inadvertently introduce vulnerabilities if developers lack deep expertise in securing underlying infrastructure. For the AI and quantum sectors, this serves as a stark reminder that scaling development speed must not come at the expense of robust security hygiene, especially as these platforms become central to data-intensive applications.
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Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web

TechCrunch3 min read

The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.

Thousands of databases hosted by development platform Supabase are exposing people’s sensitive information to the public web, new security research by cybersecurity firm UpGuard has found. UpGuard told TechCrunch that it found around 16,000 databases on which some degree of personal data was exposed while they were hosted by Supabase, which allows web and app developers to store and run their databases.…

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