Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar
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Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar
EXCLUSIVE Several Google Cloud customers say their API keys have been compromised and used by bad actors to run inferencing workloads using the most expensive video and picture models, leaving them with bills for tens of thousands of dollars and weeks of back-and-forth headaches with the Chocolate Factory as they tried to prove they were not responsible for the mess. The problem is being hashed out on social media, with sites like Reddit collect…
A really annoying thing goes up on Google Cloud's side, and it was The Register that led the survey. Several developers saw their Google Cloud bill explode between $3000 and $10,000 in a few minutes, for services they never used: Veo 3 video generation, tokens of the Gemini model, all via their API Maps keys. And the worst thing is that they had followed Google's official recommendations to the letter. Google's doc tells you to put your Maps key…
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