Not only that, the company must not have a single front end dev open up dev tools for 30 days (which should happen at least once a month if anybody is debugging

Not only that, the company must not have a single front end dev open up dev tools for 30 days (which should happen at least once a month if anybody is debugging or doing any frontend dev whatsoever), and notice that the usual json payload from the server is encrypted and can't show up in devtools, plus there's this weird outgoing request to a domain they don't recognize? And absolutely no devops or logging notices an request to some weird domain (which must be handling tons of requests and have great uptime and scalability, since every single client has to connect to it to decrypt the database). Oh, and there must not be a DBA at the company either, since absolutely nobody ran a SQL or analytics query in an entire month and noticed that some of the rows were full of unreadable garbage.. This story must be about someone's single server, single dev LAMP blog from ten years ago if it ever actually happened.