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A hacked account + no hard spending cap = a six-figure AI bill. Here's the failure mode nobody's protecting against.

Saw a story recently that stuck with us: someone's cloud account got compromised, the attacker spun up new projects to dodge the free-tier limits, and ran image generation at scale. Tbill came in north of $80K. Provider offered a "courtesy" partial write-off. User's still on the hook for five figur…

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  1. 2026-09-20 10:28 · r/AI_Agents
    A hacked account + no hard spending cap = a six-figure AI bill. Here's the failure mode nobody's protecting against.

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