Replay proof: Sandrrikk · $55,444.78

Target: Sandrrikk

Original incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1noctxi/student_hit_with_a_5544478_google_cloud_bill/

Incident date: 2025-09-23

Reported amount: $55,444.78 · merchant/service: google-gemini-api

Gemini API key accidentally exposed in GitHub commit; $55,444.78 bill; UPDATE: total balance completely waived (Sep 25).

Replayed through the live sipi.bot endpoint

Request sent to https://sipi.bot/v1/transactions/evaluate on 2026-08-30T15:36:25.569392+00:00:

{
  "transaction_id": "replay-it-011-1788104185",
  "amount": 55444.78,
  "currency": "USD",
  "merchant": "google-gemini-api",
  "description": "Replay of publicly reported incident amount ($55,444.78, 2025-09-23) from https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1noctxi/student_hit_with_a_5544478_google_cloud_bill/"
}

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_a0108e32d80b",
  "amount": 55444.78,
  "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 2026-08-30T15:36:25.569392+00:00.