Soooo, my AWS account got hacked today. AWS is short for Amazon Webservices and it is basically a platform for you to host all kinds of web service instances through Amazon’s vast server network. Apparently even though I had two form verification active on my account someone hacked it and ran about 160 high volume instances on my account. It had been going on for 12 hours by the time AWS securtiy caught it. Luckily they were watching because even in that short amount of time they racked up over 2,000 dollars in fees on my account. I wiped all my keys and passwords and am working with amazon to resolve the charges. It sounds like everything will be ok but I’ll feel better when I hear the final verdict from Amazon Customer Service.
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