Hacker Puts Hosting Service Code Spaces Out of Business ThreatPost "We finally managed to get our panel access back, but not before he had removed all EBS snapshots, S3 buckets, all AMI’s, some EBS instances and several machine instances," Code Spaces said. “In summary, most of our data, backups, machine configurations and offsite backups were either partially or completely deleted."

AWS S3 Buckets Exposed Millions of Facebook Records SecurityWeek "Storing user data in S3 buckets is commonplace... they can inadvertently be accessible, and without visibility and context... security teams simply won’t know when there’s a potential vulnerability. At issue is not the S3 bucket, but how it’s configured, and the awareness around configuration changes, some of which could end up being disastrous"

My AWS Account was Hacked and I Have a $50,000 Bill Quora







"For years, my bill was never above $350/month on my single AWS instance. Then over the weekend someone got hold of my private key and launched hundreds of instances and racked up a $50,000 bill before I found out about it on Tuesday."

Tesla Hackers Hijacked Amazon Cloud Account to Mine Cryptocurrency Fortune





"An unidentified hacker or hackers broke into a Tesla-owned Amazon cloud account and used it to mine cryptocurrency, security researchers said. The breach also exposed proprietary data for the electric carmaker."