
Founder Loses $2,500 After AI-Coded App Leaks Stripe Keys
A startup founder's vibe-coded app exposed Stripe secret keys in frontend code, letting attackers charge 175 customers $500 each before he could rotate the credentials.

A startup founder's vibe-coded app exposed Stripe secret keys in frontend code, letting attackers charge 175 customers $500 each before he could rotate the credentials.

Four competing protocols from Visa, Mastercard, Stripe/OpenAI, and Google aim to control how AI agents spend money on your behalf in a market McKinsey projects at $5 trillion by 2030.

Stripe reveals its autonomous coding agents, called Minions, now generate over 1,300 merged pull requests weekly - all reviewed by humans but written entirely by AI.