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May 26, 2026
Our first real security incident and what our runbook got wrong
CybersecurityIncident ResponseSecurityDevOps
A leaked API key led to unexpected usage charges before we caught it. Our incident runbook assumed we'd notice from monitoring alerts — we actually noticed from a billing anomaly two days later. Rewrote the runbook to include billing alerts as a first-class detection signal, not just an afterthought.
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