In April 2026 , a vulnerability in Lovable exposed thousands of applications for 48 days. Source code. Database credentials. Customer data. All accessible with a free account. Many founders didn’t even know their apps were vulnerable. If you’ve built your product using Lovable , Bolt , or v0 , your app might look production-ready. But under the surface, there are gaps these tools don’t protect you from. Working with a custom AI development company often reveals a hard truth early: AI tools accelerate development, but they don’t guarantee production-grade security. This is not about whether AI tools are good or bad. It’s about understanding what they don’t handle, before your users, investors, or attackers find out first. What Actually Happened and Why It Matters The Lovable incident wasn’t a complex, cinematic hack. It was a structural flaw. A Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) vulnerability allowed unauthorized users to access data they shouldn’t have been able to see.…