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I would have a pit in my stomach if I read a post like that knowing I implemented those APIs

What if you implemented the APIs but

- someone else proxied your API to the public

- someone else leaked credentials you assigned them in the public code of a game

As someone working on a team that publishes APIs to the greater large organization, you can't trust other people. People be doing wild things.

I would hope that my employer had a postmortem culture that encouraged looking into every point of failure and identifying process changes that will prevent a repeat of the incident. Instead of pointing the finger at Team X who messed up and/or just "blaming hackers" and continuing on with your defective processes.

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