> How are employees allowed to have access to customer's data for their personal projects?<p>Further down in the image it says:<p>> I never shared my email and all my projects are private, so the one way he could have accessed it is by checking on Vercel user's database directly.<p>Does Vercel offer a way to inspect your Databases from the app? If so it could've been via an "impersonate user" button in their backend/admin control panel (which is common because a lot of troubleshooting is 10 times easier if you're able to trace an issue from the error in the console/network tab).
The email part is unlikely to have been malicious in a sense that it was pulled from a DB. They likely have a centralized dashboard to be able to look up users and their apps/services in case something weird/shady is going on.<p>But still a fairly petty thing to do. I mean this guy must have either his head stuck up his ass or he’s dealing with something personally and the victim just happened to catch a stray bullet.<p>I didn’t see in the tweet where he got fired, was there a follow-up?
Side note: the whole "read terms of service to find the 'terminate the service at any time' clause" thing is getting old - name me a service that <i>doesn't</i> have that clause.
Previously covered at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880071">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880071</a>
Unless there's more to this story, it's a big fat "trust me, because I said it happened" story.<p>I have no horse in this race, and do not use Vercel - but there's zero evidence provided, and the story isn't even first-party. The author even says "I looked at the email so it's valid" aka "trust me".<p>Seeing the author's twitter account is filled with "look at how great I am, I shipped 18 apps before breakfast" posts - I have no choice but to be cautiously skeptical at the provided claims unless actual evidence is presented.<p>With that said - it sounds like an individual who happens to also work at Vercel may have abused their access and contacted some other party with some sort of cease and desist demand because the app idea and name were similar to theirs. News at 11...