I Got Hacked

I made a rookie mistake… I created a Telegram bot that fetches the latest news from Lobste.rs (https://lobste.rs/) with a score higher than the default value we set. I’m not good at deploying stuff to servers, so I sought help from “AI”. I never blindly trusted AI, but this time I slipped, and it gave me this. services: db: image: mysql:8.0 restart: unless-stopped environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: rootpassword MYSQL_DATABASE: ${MYSQL_DB:-lobster_bot} MYSQL_USER: ${MYSQL_USER:-lobster} MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_PASSWORD:-lobsterpassword} volumes: - mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql ports: - "3306:3306" Little did I know, the bot worked for 2 days without any issues. Then the notifications from the Telegram bot stopped. I thought the code might have broken, or there was some issue in the code, and I couldn’t find time to really check what was going on since it was a weekday. ...

April 25, 2026