2015-09-01 01:57:23.580072+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
How a bug in Visual Studio 2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and cost me $6,500 in a few hours.
Bug in Visual Studio's git integration made github repos that were supposed to be private public, which expose Amazon credentials, which Bitcoin miners use to spin up a bunch of EC2 instances...
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