I Reverse-Engineered 50 API Breaches: 5 Recurring Mistakes

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This piece analyzes more than 50 API breaches and distills them into five recurring security mistakes. It highlights a Navia Benefit Solutions incident as a concrete example of broken object-level authorization that exposed millions of records. The article argues that weak authorization, stale integrations, secret sprawl, poor behavioral monitoring, and one-time security reviews keep causing repeated breaches across SaaS, healthcare, fintech, and other software environments. It also outlines a continuous API security lifecycle that vendors and security teams can use to reduce exposure.

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