A breach that led to charges of more than a thousand dollars
Watch on YouTube First came the spending alerts. One developer said the alerts from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google were triggered almost simultaneously. Other users reported charges of hundreds of dollars; some mentioned more than a thousand. Then OpenCode confirmed a breach in an old OpenCode Console system. What is the connection
First came the spending alerts. One developer said the alerts from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google were triggered almost simultaneously. Other users reported charges of hundreds of dollars; some mentioned more than a thousand. Then OpenCode confirmed a breach in an old OpenCode Console system. What is the connection between breaking into Console and spending money on those people’s accounts? Some users stored their API keys there to access artificial intelligence services. A key works as a credential: it allows requests to be sent to a provider and the usage to be charged to the associated account. According to information published by TechCrunch, the incident affected 1.4% of Console users.
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