alt Hacker NewsI think the pingcap hack might be the biggest of them all, somehow it has gone under the radar.
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llama052 • today at 12:51 AM
I find it wild how much they have downplayed this in their statement. https://www.pingcap.com/trust-hub/security/security-update-o...
”An external incident response firm reviewed PingCAP’s production systems and found no evidence that the attacker ran commands or maintained persistent access in the systems reviewed”
hmm, I don't think that's true.
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esseph • today at 2:52 AM
That was a single company, the cert problem hit something like 70% of all websites and devices.
ChickeNES • today at 2:12 AM
Honestly…I’ve never heard of pingcap
Related ongoing thread:
PingCap TiDB Leaks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173716 - Oct 2026 (32 comments)
(It had only spent 3 hours on the frontpage so I re-upped it.)