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Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'

ID: 6579d48f-e4b5-5aa9-9764-4b0aa1a36810

STIX ID: report--6579d48f-e4b5-5aa9-9764-4b0aa1a36810

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2025-01-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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A multilingual SaaS vendor investigated a report of unexpected English UI text and mangled strings, initially suspecting a deployment or compromise, but found the cause was the user’s browser with Chrome Translate enabled; after confirming no security issue via logs and checks, the simple fix was to disable the translation feature.

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