Ask HN: Has AWS Been Hacked?

Post by aaaaaaaaata » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 3:00 PM UTC

simplyinfinity wrote: post #12

vineyardmike wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Another possibilty is that overseas contractors for AWS regularly harvest email addresses from the support UI and spam them. If this was a practice that was possible and occurring then I suspect we'd have heard of many more cases by now. Most big companies don't use contractors for work that gives them access to customer data like that, and most don't just allow anyone easy access to raw customer data without a pap…

You would think.. But Epam is a contractor for one of the clouds and has access to client data. Another few (contractor/outsourcing ) companies i know of have access to all their customer's customer data.

Post by sam0x17 » Mon, Jun 06, 2022, 8:20 PM UTC

vineyardmike wrote: post #9

sam0x17 wrote: post #7

This is almost certainly leaking without you realizing it via a WHOIS contact email somewhere or another Another possibilty is that overseas contractors for AWS regularly harvest email addresses from the support UI and spam them. Wouldn't surprise me, but the first is more likely. Wouldn't really call this a hack though either way.

> Another possibilty is that overseas contractors for AWS regularly harvest email addresses from the support UI and spam them. If this was a practice that was possible and occurring then I suspect we'd have heard of many more cases by now. Most big companies don't use contractors for work that gives them access to customer data like that, and most don't just allow anyone easy access to raw customer data without a pap…