December 2020 marked the 22nd birthday of a common vulnerability that continues to plague our software. Despite this vulnerability being old enough to drink, we’re still letting it get the better of us instead of squashing it for good. In August, Freepik Company disclosed that they had fallen victim to an SQL injection blunder that compromised the accounts of 8.3 million users. We need to place more emphasis on developer security awareness as well as give them the time to write a higher standard of secure, quality code.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/01/11/sql-injection-bug/