Replay proof: BDHM_Brendan · $13,428

Target: BDHM_Brendan

Original incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1sjzat3/api_key_compromised_13428_fraudulent_charges/

Incident date: 2026-04-13

Reported amount: $13,428 · merchant/service: google-gemini-api

Compromised API key generated $13,428 Gemini charges in one day (Mar 30); Google suspended billing; production Firebase app broken 13 days.

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:29.240525+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-013-1788104188",
  "amount": 13428.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "google-gemini-api",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($13,428, 2026-04-13) from https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1sjzat3/api_key_compromised_13428_fraudulent_charges/"
}

Exact response:

{
  "decision": "BLOCKED",
  "reason": "Block any single transaction over $500",
  "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
  "triggered": [
    {
      "rule_id": "rul_eff79f00f6",
      "rule_type": "per_transaction",
      "action": "BLOCKED",
      "label": "Block any single transaction over $500"
    }
  ],
  "transaction_id": "txn_9e8baf6a0425",
  "amount": 13428.0,
  "merchant": "google-gemini-api",
  "category": ""
}

For this replayed transaction proposal, the live sipi.bot endpoint returned BLOCKED with the rule shown above.

Limitations

This is a replay of a publicly reported amount, not a claim about avoided losses. The decision shown is a timestamped observation of the public demo decision API for this single replayed proposal, not a statement about the historical incident or any party's account.

Source checked live at 2026-08-30T15:36:29.240525+00:00.