Fast to build, fast to disappear

A hosting platform popular with vibe coders is closing down. Zeabur was breached twice in two months, and everything gets switched off by 31 December.

The worrying bit: the second time, the attacker got in with admin credentials stored in plain text. Over 3.2 million environment-variable records were exposed. That's where your API keys and database passwords live. Cybernews has the full numbers.

A lot of business owners don't even know where their app is hosted. Someone built it fast, clicked deploy on whatever was free, and moved on.

Ask your developer this week. Where does it live? Who has the keys? When were they last changed?

If you were on Zeabur: back up, move, and change every secret, even the ones you changed in August.

Fast to build is great. Fast to disappear is not.