$800 Monero Was Mined For Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars

$800 Monero was mined for tens of thousands of dollars. The hackers mined Monero on Amazon cloud servers.

Graphics, storage or processing power is required to generate a good income from cryptocurrencies. Since it is very expensive to provide these today, cloud infrastructures have come into play. Some companies give you the opportunity to constantly excavate cloud servers in exchange for a subscription. For those who don't, there are different ways. An AWS user who has no business with cryptocurrencies was stunned by the $45,000 bill at the end of the month. The truth came out when I researched this huge bill that came despite being a standard user. The hackers who took over the customer's account had run a Monero mining program on Amazon servers. The 15-minute limit set by Amazon for tasks such as big data, batch processing or statistics calculation was exceeded by reinstalling the applications every 3 minutes. The interesting part was that the attackers got only $800 worth of Monero in exchange for a $45,000 bill. Of course, since the money spent was not theirs, direct income was obtained. The customer, on the other hand, is still trying to figure out how to fix this grievance with Amazon customer service.