Replay proof: vatcode · $15,400

Target: vatcode

Original incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1s7v5x9/how_googles_insecurebydefault_api_keys_and_a/

Incident date: 2026-03-30

Reported amount: $15,400 · merchant/service: google-gemini-api

Legacy unrestricted Firebase key became valid for Gemini; attacker spammed inference from botnet; first alert $40, then $15,400 after ~30h billing lag.

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:27.440927+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-012-1788104187",
  "amount": 15400.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "google-gemini-api",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($15,400, 2026-03-30) from https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1s7v5x9/how_googles_insecurebydefault_api_keys_and_a/"
}

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_406859d942af",
  "amount": 15400.0,
  "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 2026-08-30T15:36:27.440927+00:00.