My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS

Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by snowpalmer on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:20PM (#6912078)

I had the exact same thing happen to me. 2 days of 20 instances running and then amazon called me. I shut it down and revoked permissions immediately.

They did refund the money.

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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by icpmacdo on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:51PM (#6912217)

I just checked my EC2 page and have found $45 worth of charges from instances that I shut down weeks ago. Would it have automatically re ordered some if the bidding price dropped below a threshold? When I looked at my management console there were no EC2 instances running. This has turned out to be a very expensive experiment in LTC mining.

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Re:My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS by vertis on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:22PM (#6912092)

Yeah, I'd say that anyone on Github that has somehow leaked keys is in for a nasty surprise (or has already received one)

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