Article K4ZP Bloke clicks GitHub 'commit' button in Visual Studio, gets slapped with $6,500 AWS bill

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

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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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