A hacker gained access to someone’s Amazon Web Services account and used it to spin up servers to run Monero miners, ultimately netting 6 Monero (XMR) worth a total of about $800 over the couple of weeks they were running. All this work, however, cost the hacked individual about $45,000 in AWS fees, providing a particularly salient example of why people don’t typically use AWS to mine crypto. Fortunately, Amazon waived the bill for the owner of the compromised account.

Total loss estimated at $45,000.