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Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours for solo dev

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 27, 2026
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Image: Google Gemini

If someone steals your credit card and racks up fraudulent charges, your bank will reverse them. If someone steals your cloud API key and racks up $82,000 in compute charges over a weekend, you owe Google the money. That is the state of consumer protection in cloud computing in 2024.

A solo developer in Vietnam who uses Google’s Gemin…

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