Replay proof: shiva0801 · ~$1,800

Target: shiva0801

Original incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489247

Incident date: 2025-07-07

Reported amount: ~$1,800 · merchant/service: aws-lambda

Staging Lambda called itself recursively via misconfigured trigger for ~6 hours; ~$1.8k bill spike; low-traffic persistence hid it.

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:17.558249+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-007-1788104177",
  "amount": 1800.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "aws-lambda",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount (~$1,800, 2025-07-07) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489247"
}

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_c63a46bd9fda",
  "amount": 1800.0,
  "merchant": "aws-lambda",
  "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 2026-08-30T15:36:17.558249+00:00.