Football Australia, the national governing authority for the sport, embedded an AWS Access Key in their website that granted access to 126 S3 Buckets containing sensitive information for players and fans.

In September 2018 a former engineer leveraged AWS credentials, left over from his time of employment, which resulted in the deletion of 456 virtual machines for Cisco’s WebEx Teams application. Cisco cited the outage as costing over $2.4M dollars.