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Re:Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage by CaptainOfCoit on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @01:49PM (#45659047)
> couple folks on reddit said while they were refreshing during the outage, they were briefly logged in as a whole different user

Didn't ChatGPT have a similar issue recently? Would sound awfully similar.

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Re:Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage by sunaookami on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @02:55PM (#45660022)
Steam also had this, classic caching issue.
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Re:Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage by mbo on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:20PM (#45661165)
This happened to me on Twitter maybe like, 9 years ago? What's the mechanism of action that causes this to happen?
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Re:Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage by howinator on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:47PM (#45662696)
The easiest way to do this is to misconfigure your CDN so that it caches set-cookie headers.
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