
Hackers exploit Vercel’s trust in AI integration
Frontend cloud platform Vercel, the creator of Next.js and Turbo.js, has warned about a data breach after a compromised third-party AI application abused OAuth to access its internal systems. A Vercel employee used the third party app, identified as Context.ai , which allowed the attackers to take over their Google Workspace account and access some environment variables that the company said were not marked as “sensitive.” “Environment variables marked as “sensitive” in Vercel are stored in a manner that prevents them from being read, and we currently do not have evidence that those values were accessed,” Vercel said in a security post. The incident compromised what the company described as ...