Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

The Register
May 12, 2026, 7:03 pm111 pts
EXCLUSIVE Several Google Cloud customers say their API keys have been compromised and used by bad actors to run inferencing workloads using the most expensive video and picture models, leaving them with bills for tens of thousands of dollars and weeks of back-and-forth headaches with the Chocolate Factory as…

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