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Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)

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Hug ops to the team. Justin is great and I know they have to be stressed from all of this.Email I got from Porter follows, trimmed for HN character limit. Full text at https://gist.github.com/leetrout/2d172d2b95e8d24af0f3de0d0b03561e---What happenedOn April 13th, 2026, the Porter team detected unauthorized activity originating from a stale AWS access key in our infrastructure. Upon detection, we immediately revoked all affected credentials and engaged our incident response processes, which included a comprehensive investigation.Since April 13th, we have seen no further evidence of unauthorized activity within Porter networks and systems. Working closely with Cloudflare and Amazon, we have substantially completed the investigation of our environment and are continuing to prioritize supporting customers in their response efforts.We have determined that the threat actor operated between 03:23 UTC April 11, 2026 and 15:24 UTC April 13, 2026. During this window, the threat actor leveraged I...

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