--- title: Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam | daily.dev description: Troy Hunt's weekly video update recorded from Vietnam covers the Brinks Home security incident. The company published an FAQ that fails to actually answer key... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-516-live-from-vietnam-8ofwaatbo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam | daily.dev og:description: Troy Hunt's weekly video update recorded from Vietnam covers the Brinks Home security incident. The company published an FAQ that fails to actually answer key... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-516-live-from-vietnam-8ofwaatbo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8ofWAatBO.png og:image:alt: Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam **[Troy Hunt](https://daily.dev/sources/troyhunt)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Troy Hunt's weekly video update recorded from Vietnam covers the Brinks Home security incident. The company published an FAQ that fails to actually answer key questions about the breach. The attack pattern described: a hacker used vishing combined with OAuth to obtain data, demanded a ransom, received none, then dumped the data publicly. Brinks is now facing class action lawsuits and has lawyered up, notifying customers only 'where legally required.' Hunt reflects on how this pattern of corporate incident response — heavy on legal language, light on transparency — has become the norm. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How did the Brinks Home data breach happen? The Brinks Home breach followed a vishing-to-OAuth attack chain: a hacker called up and socially engineered their way into obtaining data via OAuth, then demanded a ransom. When no payment was made, the hacker dumped the data publicly. Brinks subsequently faced class action lawsuits and notified customers only where legally required. _Teams handling breach response and disclosure decisions track real-world incident patterns on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity](https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-519-breaches-data-integrity-rhuwx1tjb) · Troy Hunt · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Weekly Update 492](https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-492-8un4upx3q) · Troy Hunt · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [This Week In Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, And Hacks That Could Have Been Worse](https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-security-annoyed-researchers-dangling-dns-and-hacks-that-could-have-been-worse-zkzz1p3fl) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#data-breach](https://daily.dev/tags/data-breach), [#oauth](https://daily.dev/tags/oauth) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-516-live-from-vietnam-8ofwaatbo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-516-live-from-vietnam-8ofwaatbo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/weekly-update-516-live-from-vietnam-8ofwaatbo"},"datePublished":"2026-08-12T08:58:21.767Z","dateModified":"2026-08-12T08:58:42.899Z","description":"Troy Hunt's weekly video update recorded from Vietnam covers the Brinks Home security incident. 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