Security a primary factor that holds back people from embracing the cloud, it's a shared responsibility between the vendor and application owner. This Podcast covers a research article from Palo alto networks on how a error message acted as feedback mechanism to try different account ids and hack into the system. The current architecture doesn't cap the number of failed attempts nor there is a timing window that completely facilitates the exercise. Further, the insidious attempts are logged into the account of the hacker completely blindsiding the operations admin 

A similar exercise was successful in the past using a similar concept of IAM Role assumption, though it was quickly fixed by AWS team, the base concept between the two exercises remains the same 

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