[tptacek]

I don't know. If we're going to speculate, I'll say: the Facebook security team didn't know this system existed (it's a 3rd party admin console on a public IP address!), and their immediate reaction to it was "nuke it from orbit, pay out the bounty for finding it, and forget about it".

My guess is that they discovered the AWS credential thing on December 1.

[flgr]

If they discovered the AWS credential thing on December 1 after the security researcher reported it, and wouldn't have discovered it otherwise, and it could be the case that someone else found the exact same attack path first, shouldn't they reward him for making them aware of a problem they would not have otherwise noticed? That they wouldn't have fixed? That others that discovered the same attack path might otherwise still openly exploit to MITM all the traffic, to do arbitrary things with arbitrary user accounts?

[jessaustin]

In your experience, are there other, more careful organizations who would have taken the host offline but saved a disk dump for later investigation?