EXCLUSIVE: Zeabur founder confirms four AI providers' keys were involved in October incident

In an Oct. 22nd email to RuntimeWire, Yuanlin Lin named OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini, and said Zeabur had notified all four. Zeabur's report separately describes a suspected use of a customer's OpenAI key; Railway's Oct. 22nd follow-up says investigators believe its attacker sought AI-provider keys for distillation.

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Primary source: zeabur.com

Why it matters

Lin's October-specific confirmation adds evidence that keys for four AI providers were involved. Zeabur's report had already named OpenAI and described possible use of a customer's key as a hypothesis; it did not establish which keys were exfiltrated or used.

Exclusive: Zeabur founder says four AI providers’ keys were involved in October incident — Yuanlin Lin identified OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini as providers whose keys were involved, and said Zeabur notified them.

In an Oct. 22nd email to RuntimeWire, Zeabur founder Yuanlin Lin confirmed that keys for OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini were involved in the company's October security incident. "The keys involved were for OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini," Lin wrote. "We notified all four but have not received a response."…

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