23 Aug 2026 8 min read 88% of leaked AWS keys still work On 10 August Truffle Security re-tested 10,616 AWS credential pairs that had surfaced publicly since August 2022 and 88% still authenticated. Of those traceable to a company, 768 out of 817 granted full control of the account. The median age is 1,831 days and the oldest predates IAM itself. Separately from that tally, Hugging Face holds another 8,482 live keys across 3,394 public datasets.
AWS, July 16~8 hours of errors 21 Jul 2026 8 min read AWS went down again on July 16: eight hours that explain what a disaster recovery plan is (actually) for CloudFront served errors for about eight hours on July 16, 2026. It's the third major AWS outage in nine months, and none of them was an attack. What to map, what to promise and what NOT to build so your provider's incident doesn't become yours.