Replay proof: Far-Comfortable7144 · $10,138.28

Target: Far-Comfortable7144 · B2B SaaS serving universities

Original incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1t4xkmf/charged_10138_in_march_2026_due_to_googles/

Incident date: 2026-05-06

Reported amount: $10,138.28 · merchant/service: google-gemini-veo-api

B2B SaaS for universities; bill jumped $50/mo to $10,138.28 from Veo 3 + Gemini image tokens via documented legacy-key scope vulnerability (Truffle, Feb 25 2026).

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:31.115033+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-014-1788104190",
  "amount": 10138.28,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "google-gemini-veo-api",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($10,138.28, 2026-05-06) from https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1t4xkmf/charged_10138_in_march_2026_due_to_googles/"
}

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_921c93a898db",
  "amount": 10138.28,
  "merchant": "google-gemini-veo-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 2026-08-30T15:36:31.115033+00:00.