Bloke clicks GitHub 'commit' button in Visual Studio, gets slapped with $6,500 AWS bill

Posted by bob on Sep 2, 2015 2:25 AM EDT
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Oh, did you mean that to be a PRIVATE repository? A web developer from South Africa said a bug in a tool for using Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE with code-sharing site GitHub inadvertently exposed his sensitive data – and the error cost him more than $6,500 (£4,250) in just a few hours.…

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