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by supazek 1027 days ago
I setup an AWS account in college before I had ever worked and dealt with enterprise security. Didn’t use the account for anything. No 2FA and a weak password and all of a sudden I have a $15,000 bill from a crypto mining script. Worked with Amazon, got everything cleaned up, turned on 2FA and was only charged $100. Pretty generous considering it was entirely my fault
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Someone else's fraud isn't your fault.

Amazon can damned well run password strength / compromise tests and validations.