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Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I've had conversations with Google employees about this problem. I know you're speaking about your situation with essentially a homelab, but for business customers its more complicated than it seems on the surface. Many customers aren't savvy enough to understand "just delete anything that is generating a bill" also means all of your data stored on Persistent Disk or in GCS.