I wonder how many people may have gotten an actual heart infarct because of that...

Hamuko · 2026-07-17T13:29:44

Reminds me of the time a Robinhood user killed themselves after Robinhood erroneously showed their account balance at -$730k.

noisy_boy · 2026-07-17T13:52:13

In that case, they settled with Robinhood and FINRA fined Robinhood 70 million dollars.

dymk · 2026-07-17T17:04:14

"They" being the family; Robinhood couldn't settle with the guy who was wronged because he, ya know, killed himself first

petercooper · 2026-07-17T13:43:27

Ah, there'll be something in the TOS absolving them of responsibility.

isodev · 2026-07-17T16:40:36

Maybe AWS is also “for entertainment purposes only”

Xunjin · 2026-07-17T14:00:24

Well... That depends on the country jurisdiction. And any ToS is bounded by law and can be questioned.

pedrosousa · 2026-07-20T14:01:05

I legit had a small panic attack due to this.

I'm not a devops but we are running some s3 buckets. When I saw the number I couldn't even comprehend and thought we had been hacked.

I feel like this is such a bad mistake from AWS and we will never be compensated for it.

Put me off having anything on AWS from now on.