If you were a criminal trolling the Internet for vulnerable servers and found stripe keys... would your first instinct be to refund customers rather than do some other sort of crime? Like what's the motivation you envision here?
"Because I can" or "Because it's funny" are more than enough reason for most people. The fact that the hacker refunded all the customers, then emailed them to warn them that they were using a terrible app actually sounds like a pretty tame troll to me. If the hacker was truly hired by the competition to act maliciously, they could have done far, far worse.
Your friend should take this as a lesson instead of trying to deflect blame to their competitors.
There are black hat hackers that take great joy in just causing as much chaos as possible, particularly with such vibe-coded apps. Even with stripe keys, it's not like they could direct money elsewhere.
Maybe a blackhat hacker decided that the software was so shoddily built that the company didn't deserve to continue existing, and decided to try to make that happen as a sort of vigilante justice against crappy vibe-coded apps.
Definitely not a good idea but it's not an unreasonable motivation.
If you were a criminal trolling the Internet for vulnerable servers and found stripe keys... would your first instinct be to refund customers rather than do some other sort of crime? Like what's the motivation you envision here?
"Because I can" or "Because it's funny" are more than enough reason for most people. The fact that the hacker refunded all the customers, then emailed them to warn them that they were using a terrible app actually sounds like a pretty tame troll to me. If the hacker was truly hired by the competition to act maliciously, they could have done far, far worse.
Your friend should take this as a lesson instead of trying to deflect blame to their competitors.
> Because it's funny
I think you mean “for the lulz”
There are black hat hackers that take great joy in just causing as much chaos as possible, particularly with such vibe-coded apps. Even with stripe keys, it's not like they could direct money elsewhere.
Maybe a blackhat hacker decided that the software was so shoddily built that the company didn't deserve to continue existing, and decided to try to make that happen as a sort of vigilante justice against crappy vibe-coded apps.
Definitely not a good idea but it's not an unreasonable motivation.
Some people just want to watch the world burn :shrugs:
Fun and internet points!
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