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Discussion on: I was billed for 14k USD on Amazon Web Services 😱

 
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balaji radhakrishnan

Nice story :)
AWS knows before the hacker that your keys are compromised. They are running a similar script/program to check whether your keys are publicly exposed.

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xtofl

So you know that for a fact? Or are you guessing?

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Daniel Crabtree

I've found Slack (@SlackHQ) support to be awesome too.

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balaji radhakrishnan

I have seen instances like this before where some guys would have exposed their repo publicly with the keys and immediately started receiving emails from AWS that their keys are compromised. I am guessing the fact they would have done it the same way the hackers are doing it.