Privacy

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web

2026-05-07 · WIRED

Turns out letting anyone vibe-code a web app with AI means thousands of apps are now cheerfully exposing corporate and personal data on the open web. Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify made it so easy to build apps that nobody bothered with basic security — because who needs authentication when you have vibes? The democratization of software development has successfully democratized data breaches too.

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