Real cases. Real companies. Real people. This is why we build local.
An OAuth supply-chain attack. Infostealer malware hit an employee at Context.ai (a small AI tool); the stolen tokens — through Google SSO — opened Vercel's internal systems and bypassed multi-factor authentication entirely. Customer environment variables and API keys (AWS, Stripe, GitHub, Twilio, SendGrid…) were exposed across hundreds of organizations.
Database — incl. 580 employee records — listed for sale on BreachForums.
— You handed your secrets to a cloud. The cloud handed them to an AI tool. The AI tool handed them to a kid running Roblox exploits. —
Mercor — which supplies human training data to frontier AI labs — was hit through a supply-chain attack on the open-source LiteLLM library, where planted malware harvested API keys, SSH keys and cloud credentials. Attackers claimed 4TB: the data of 40,000+ contractors, job-interview recordings, facial biometric data, screenshots of workers' screens, source code, and clients' secret AI projects.
Meta paused its data work with Mercor; 7+ class actions filed.
— To train the AI, they filmed your face, your interview, your screen. Then they left the tape rolling for everyone. —
Meta shipped intimate videos recorded by $299 Ray-Ban smart glasses to contractors in Nairobi, Kenya — without consent. Content included private activities, financial data, and bathroom footage. All marked "private" by users, reviewed by 100+ workers.
Class action — U.S. District Court, N.D. California
— Smart glasses. Very smart. Someone in Nairobi watched your bathroom. Twice. You weren't invited. —
Three unsecured databases — no password — exposed ~3.7 million records from Sears Home Services' AI assistants ("Samantha" and "KAIros"): chat transcripts, audio recordings and call transcriptions from 2024–2026, all in plaintext, with names, addresses, emails and phone numbers.
Found by researcher Jeremiah Fowler — left open to anyone on the web.
— You called to fix an appliance. They recorded the call, the chat, your address — and left the door wide open. —
An autonomous offensive AI agent (CodeWall) needed just two hours to break into McKinsey's internal AI platform, Lilli — finding 22 unauthenticated API endpoints and a years-old SQL-injection flaw. It reached 46.5 million chat messages on strategy, M&A and client engagements, plus 728,000 confidential client files and 57,000 user accounts.
AI breaking AI — patched within 24 hours of disclosure.
— It took an AI two hours to read 46 million of McKinsey's private messages. The strategy decks were a bonus. —
A misconfigured database at one of the most popular AI chat apps (50M+ users) exposed 300 million private messages tied to 25 million people — including intimate confessions, health questions, and requests no one ever expected to be public.
Discovered by an independent security researcher
— You told an app your darkest secret. 25 million people did too. It kept them all in one unlocked drawer. —
WhatsApp promised "unbreakable encryption." Leaked documents revealed Meta and contractor Accenture accessed 3+ billion private messages via a backdoor. False advertising to billions.
Multi-national class action: Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa
— End-to-end encryption. From you… to Meta… to Accenture… to their contractors in three countries. The "ends" are just further than advertised. —
OpenAI scraped millions of books, articles, and creative works from living authors without permission or compensation. Multiple class actions ongoing in U.S. and EU courts. The company argues it's "fair use." The authors disagree.
Class action — Authors Guild et al. v. OpenAI, S.D.N.Y.
— "Fair use," they said. 99,000 authors filed a lawsuit. The books are still in the model. The trial date is still pending. —
France's CNIL sanctioned the Free group after a major breach exposed subscriber data, citing failure to adequately protect personal information — €27 million on Free Mobile alone, part of a larger €42 million penalty.
— Your phone bill came with a side of identity theft. Free of charge. —
A BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware attack on Change Healthcare — which handles one in three U.S. patient records — exposed the data of 192.7 million people, nearly two-thirds of the United States. The largest healthcare data breach ever recorded.
— Two out of three Americans, one single hack. But sure — let's keep it all in one place. —
The Irish DPC issued the second-largest GDPR fine ever over TikTok's transfers of European user data to China and failures around processing and consent.
— €530M fine. TikTok revenue: ~€20B. Somewhere, a compliance lawyer is still laughing. —
An "island-hopping" attack compromised a weakly defended third-party customer-service platform to reach higher-value Qantas data — 5.7 million customer records exposed without the airline's own systems ever being breached directly.
— The airline was secure. The vendor wasn't. The data flew anyway. —
France's CNIL hit Google with its third and largest fine over advertising cookies and consent — an escalating pattern: €100M in 2020, €150M in 2021, €325M in 2025. The fines grow; the behaviour doesn't.
— €100M, then €150M, then €325M. The fine goes up. The behaviour doesn't. —
Massive unauthorized collection of personal data from millions of users, violating GDPR consent and processing rules.
— "Professional Network." Very professional. Professionally harvesting your data since 2003. —
Continued fines and enforcement actions related to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica breach and subsequent GDPR violations.
— They paid. They apologized. They learned their lesson. (They did not learn their lesson.) —
Meta's "Tag Suggestions" captured facial geometry of millions of Texans through photo tagging — without consent. Largest privacy settlement in U.S. history.
— $1.4 billion sounds like a lot. Meta's Q3 2024 profit: $15.7 billion. The math is doing something. —
This is not coincidence. This is the business model. Your data is the product. Your privacy is the cost.
Governments fight back — but by then the damage is done. Companies pay fines and continue.
Local control is the only real protection. When your data lives on your machine, no one can sell it, lose it, or weaponize it.
The good news? You don't need a lawyer, a lobbyist, or a miracle. You need a hard drive and 10 minutes to install Ollama. The exit already exists. We just built a sign pointing to it.
"The more laws, the less justice."
— The Count of Monte Cristo
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