Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway ^39.3%

The Register - By Thomas Claburn - 7/2/2026, 11:08 PM

Negativity Bias 40% - Burden of Proof 32.1% - Appeal to Authority 19.7%

During a 48-hour period from June 7 to 8, developer Charles Jones's Google Cloud account registered $11,089.77 in charges - most related to the use of Gemini image-generation models. Yet Jones, a solo developer who runs programmatic SEO and insurance sites, told The Register that he doesn't have any workflow that generates AI images.... more