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391 points kinj28 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.21s | source

Could there be any link between the two events?

Here is what happened:

Some 600 instances were spawned within 3 hours before AWS flagged it off and sent us a health event. There were numerous domains verified and we could see SES quota increase request was made.

We are still investigating the vulnerability at our end. our initial suspect list has 2 suspects. api key or console access where MFA wasn’t enabled.

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sousastep ◴[] No.45657982[source]
couple folks on reddit said while they were refreshing during the outage, they were briefly logged in as a whole different user
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1. TZubiri ◴[] No.45665172[source]
A security incident like this would dwarf in comparision to partial unavailability of services.