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		LeonM on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company" If your DO (or other cloud provider) credentials are compromised, it's usually a matter of seconds before someone fires up the largest possible number of instances to start crypto mining.

bcooks on June 4, 2019 [–]

Yup. LeonM, you are correct. In this case that was the cryptocurrency mining detector that was triggered. More details in the postmortem.

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