DDoS on static site: 190TB bandwidth in 4 days; Netlify billed $55/100GB overage = $104,500 overdue bill; site was 4 years on free tier.
Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:22.048073+00:00:
{
"transaction_id": "replay-it-009-1788104181",
"amount": 104500.0,
"currency": "USD",
"merchant": "netlify-bandwidth",
"description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($104,500.00, 2024-02-27) from https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_just_sent_me_a_104k_bill_for_a_simple/"
}
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_952b386436bd",
"amount": 104500.0,
"merchant": "netlify-bandwidth",
"category": ""
}
For this replayed transaction proposal, the live sipi.bot endpoint returned BLOCKED with the rule shown above.
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 2026-08-30T15:36:22.048073+00:00.