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Re:“DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (2019) by lmz on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:14PM (#31564944)
cryptocoin miners using stolen cards
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Re:“DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (2019) by josephcsible on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:28PM (#31565010)
But the stolen cards are all that's fraudulent, not the high CPU loads.
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Re:“DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (2019) by quesomaster9000 on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:59PM (#31565442)
No, technically the use is fraudulent, which would be an incurred cost damage to the hosting provider (potentially including third-party breach of contract due to knock-on effects, SLAs etc), with another count of deception for paying with a stolen card...

Anyway, I digress...

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Re:“DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (2019) by josephcsible on Monday May 30, 2022 @10:24PM (#31565539)
In any case, though, there were just high CPU loads and the credit card wasn't stolen, so there was no actual fraud at all.
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Re:“DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (2019) by shrubble on Monday May 30, 2022 @10:32PM (#31565572)
"Process for adding the Allow High CPU Utilization safety flag was not followed."

so high CPU utilization is allowed under certain cases

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