The Railway Breach and the Black Market for AI Keys: Why a Stolen Token Is Cash

A hand slides a translucent glass key with a glowing turquoise core onto a neat stack of banknotes on a white stone counter, with tall windows and blue sky behind
Railway says an attacker may have read customer environment variables as part of a series of attacks aimed at AI inference providers. What Railway has confirmed and what it has not, why a stolen AI API key works like cash, how distillers and reseller networks use stolen keys, the second-order effects of anti-distillation defenses, and a 10-minute checklist: rotate, cap, one key per agent, alerts.
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