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A stolen Gemini API key turned a $180 bill into $82,000 in two days (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 day ago by XLE@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Original Reddit post, which the article almost exclusively pulls from: https://old.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1reqtvi/82000_in_48_hours_from_stolen_gemini_api_key_my/

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[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

One of the developers argued on Reddit that cloud providers should implement stronger safeguards

Uh, stronger safeguards like LIKE ENABLING TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION YOU FUCKING IDIOTS.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago

I wasnt aware of 2FA on API keys.

Is that something new?
And here I thought that's why they tell you to never share it because the API key can't be protected by 2FA (And no, IAM or SSO is not something I will count)