New Delhi, April 20 -- Cloud development platform Vercel has confirmed a data breach that compromised its internal systems. Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch disclosed details about the data breach in a post on X (formerly Twitter), where he also hinted that AI may have been used to accelerate the attack.

In his X post, Rauch explained that the breach originated when a Vercel employee's Google Workspace account was compromised. He noted that the Vercel employee was using an AI platform called Context.ai, which got breached, and the attackers then used it to compromise the employee's Google Workspace account.

"Through a series of manoeuvres that escalated from our colleague's compromised Vercel Google Workspace account, the attacker got further...