The Vercel Breach Wasn't Just a Hack. It Was a Trust Failure

Last weekend, Vercel, the company behind Next.js and one of the most widely used deployment platforms in the world, confirmed a security breach. Hackers breached its internal systems. They walked out with API keys, source code, and employee records. A threat actor has listed the stolen data on BreachForums for $2 million.

If you host anything on Vercel, this is your problem too. If you've built on Lovable, it's actually worse.

I've been through a major security breach before. At Evernote, we had to reset over 50 million user accounts in one bad weekend. What I learned is that the founders who survive these moments are the ones who had already thought about it once, before anything happened. Most hadn't.

Here's what you need to understand about both incidents and what to do when you find yourself facing a secruity threat.