My AWS Account is hacked! I am being billed for Services which I have not used!!! What can I do now?
Few months back I have posted my journey towards AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate exam. The link can be found below, http://ahirjoy.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-i-passed-aws-certified-architect.html However, while my cloud journey was going on well, there was a rude shock when I realized that my account got hacked. Though I was on long leave last month, I observed that my billing was increasing exponentially everyday though I was sure that I did not have any services running. Still I logged in to my AWS account to verify the same as I started getting unusual usage alert from AWS support also by then. To my surprise, I found many EC2 instances, VPCs and policies were created for my account which were very much active! Also, I found one subscription NVIDIA GPU Optimized AMI was subscribed for me in AWS marketplace!!! I got panicked. I Immediately closed the account. However, to my disappointment I received communication from AWS support that unless the account is secured, i
