Student hit with a $55,444.78 Google Cloud bill after Gemini API key leaked on GitHub

I saw this on reddit. Any thoughts about this issue?

I would just laugh and ignore.

The student is from Georgia, I assume he is talking about the country, they won't do anything, just open an incognito tab, create a new Google account and move on

The fun part is that Google basically allowed some user to spend $55k when he only spent $80,
This is more about exploiting the Google payment system rather than a single person's problem, who can simply report that his account was "hacked"

My Question is to get 300$ Trial Credit we need to add just payment method but to be able to spend after 300$ trial credit we must have to change our Subscription from Trial to pay as you go manually and there is no way someone just able to spend that much amount

Ah the poor guy is from Georgia. )))

Don't know if I can meet up and consult him about this topic.

Erm, in any case it should not be even possible to spend $55k like this.

Yes, he made a mistake and it can be argued that it was a negligence but people that used his API keys are basically ones that stole, not him. Because they took something that was not there's and abused it.

tough call really, but $55k is not a small amount, either. Have I heard google sue locally anyone in Georgia? No. But again $55k is no small money.

Kinda shitty situation not gonna lie.

But from standpoint of court I see decision going for google........as sad as it sounds. He published something publicly, and it's his negligence.

But why would they allow such a huge charge like why?!

And yes, I hate reddit))) mostly, brain dead people, with 0 empathy and 0 remorse. Oh not to mention intellect.


But here is a thing, that it really comes down to, amount of backlash and negative exposure google gets for their shady business practices, is it worth $55k? lets think about this