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Ask HN: Has AWS Been Hacked?
I just received the following email, to an email address that has only ever been used once, to register an AWS account in 2021.
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- Oras 4y agoDo you use browser extensions that could collect form data?
- gregw2 4y agoAWS could be hacked... but the other logical options are your email provider was hacked... or some other PI/hacker who really cares about you (due to team fortress) has figured out your naming pattern from other sources and is probing you, either with or without that domain name company's help?
- YPPH 4y agoAre you certain you did not use the email anywhere else, including in WHOIS records for any domain? Is the email predictable? I use a dedicated email address for AWS and I have only ever received AWS correspondence to it.
- digianarchist 4y agoLikely they issue. Might be worth taking the deal as I imagine Team Fortress is trademarked by Valve.
- YPPH 4y agohttps://trademarks.justia.com/755/42/team-75542473.html https://trademarks.justia.com/755/42/team-75542473.html Trademark filed 1998-08-25. WHOIS reports this domain was registered 2021-06-01. A risky purchase.
- digianarchist 4y agoI've been sued by Politico and eBay for infringement in domains. I wouldn't touch this domain with a barge pole.
- drzel 4y agoYep the email address is of the format: name+serverlocationyear@domain.tld and has absolutely only ever been used for this one purpose.
- MattGaiser 4y agoDid you use this site to register for GoDaddy by any chance? Or for a domain name with AWS that later got transferred to GoDaddy?
- drzel 4y agoNope.
- sam0x17 4y agoThis 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.
- vineyardmike 4y ago> 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 paper trail and reason.
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- sam0x17 4y agoAt a previous company AWS was a customer, and I can tell you from the corporate training resources I've seen, they have huge populations of support engineers in countries like India, who are contractors.
- simplyinfinity 4y agoYou 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.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoDell, too
- Nextgrid 4y ago> Most big companies don't use contractors for work that gives them access to customer data like that [citation needed] Okta is a recent counter-example.
- vineyardmike 4y agoConsidering you're a developer of a game called "team fortress" (based on your HN comment history) who had a domain for team fortress with WHOIS info updated in 2021, I'd say that its probably someone on your dev team trying to make a few bucks and knew the address. But maybe you registered this with Cloudflare and forgot, and Cloudflare is forwarding the email to you.
- throwaway019254 4y agoHave you ever had any domain registered with this AWS account?
- drzel 4y agoNope.