Okay so I'm double sure that the AWS incident resulted a massive data breach, as Google are adamant these are not due to them. I've had zero issues for over 20 years with my email account, and now all of a sudden I compromised to a degree that beggars belief right as the entire Web went down for a day.
I'm now having to update 241 passwords across all sorts of websites, from AA.com to xero. This is a fucking nightmare scenario but I have no choice save spending probably the next several hours or days cleaning the shit off my online self.
I recommend y'all start checking your stuff too. So far my hackers have only managed to change my LinkedIn email to some Indian one, and used discord to spam my mates about a crypto scam, so the impact is annoying but recoverable. Thankfully my bank stuff is all passkey biometrics + that password was never saved online so I'm not yet financially fucked, but that's only a matter of time if I don't fix this.
Wish me luck & prayers frens, gonna need it.
Number of my apps running on AWS: ZERO. Beauty of building everything by scratch.
I used to use AWS all the time to run everything, but started moving more and more stuff locally and finally I stopped using AWS many years ago. Crazily after a year after I shutdown everything on AWS I started getting bills. Had a long fight with some Amazon call center to get rid of the bill and it was kinda fine but again 6 months later I got another bill. Thats when I went and deleted my account.
I vaguely remember a few days ago seeing something for that account - hopefully the hackers have not reactivated my account, kek.
Talking about Xero - I remember all the hype at the time when it came out, and my accountant moved to Xero and was suggesting I should use it too. Instead I sat down and coded a accounting app using PHP and its ugly as shit but its been working for me for the last 15 years or so.
Funny thing, I decided to use AI to rebuild it. I got a clean ledger balancing app done in like 2 hours. Still needs final touches, like importing my bank statements etc, but thats for another weekend.
I HAVE NOT TOUCHED AWS DUE TO THE NONSENSE THAT IS PLAYING OUT IN-FRONT OF US!!!!! I DO NOT TRUST AWS FOR ANYTHING!!!!!
I am in the process of standing up a stand-alone server with database and web APP...!!!!!