Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked

The Verge / 4/20/2026

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Key Points

  • Vercel, a major cloud development and deployment platform, suffered a security incident and says it has been compromised.
  • A threat actor claiming to be from ShinyHunters has posted data online, including employee names, email addresses, and activity timestamps, and is attempting to sell the stolen information.
  • Vercel confirmed that the incident affected only a limited subset of its customers, indicating scope was restricted.
  • Vercel attributed the breach to a compromised third-party AI tool, but did not name the specific vendor involved.
Vercel homepage with the tagline “build and deploy on the AI cloud”

Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which was behind the recent hack of Rockstar Games, posted some data online, including employee names, email addresses, and activity time stamps. Vercel confirmed in a post on X that a "security incident" had occurred, and that it impacted a "limited subset" of its customers. Vercel said that a compromised third-party AI tool was the avenue for attack, though it did not specify which third-party was involved.

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