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Bob Starr, a project manager in the tech sector, built and shipped a website called Boomberg — a tool that maps how much US tax money flows to tech companies — and pushed it live almost immediately after writing it.
Months passed before Starr discovered the site carried a SQL injection vulnerability that could have let an attacker read or alter data they had no business touching.
The Flaw That Slipped Through SQL injection is one of the oldest and best-documented attack classes in web security.
A successful exploit allows a malicious actor to manipulate database queries by inserting unauthorized commands through user-facing inputs — in practice, that means reading private records, modifying stored data, or, depending on configuration, escalating further into a system.
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