before i say anything, this is all satire, fictional, hypothetical, in-game, educational, and a joke so pls dont ban me
so i was looking for websites for the resource center and i came across a particularly sus site. so i thought "huh, this is weird" and i typed ''' three apostrophes in the search bar. and it returned a database error !! so i did a little more testing and it turns out, this popular video game website was vulnerable to a sql injection exploit. in 2025????
for context, this type of vulnerability was mostly phased out of existence like a decade ago. but basically i was able to obtain a FULL COPY OF THW DATABASE. email addresses, passwords, ip addresses, EVERYTHING on the website.
so heres a lesson to everyone: um if you make a website , dont be dumb. update your software, use secure coding practices. and if youre a user, use strong passwords!! when passwords are stored in the database, theyre basically encrypted and the encryption key doesnt exist, so an attacker would need to manually guess the encryption key/plain text password. this is an oversimplification but still. BE SAFE AND DONT GET HACKED