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extjac's avatar

AWS SES -

I pushed a Laravel App last week to "production". I am using AWS services; AWS Beanstalk and AWS lightSail. For emails, I am using AWS SES. Today I received 2000 emails bounces from AWS and the account suspended. It looks like that last night my SES account sent 160k emails (spam).

I dont even understand how this happen. AWS account is one week old; with bran new keys. I am using github private repo to push data into AWS or Zip files.

did anyone has this issue with Laravel and AWS SES?

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Sinnbeck's avatar

Do you have a contact form or something like that one the website?

I have seen examples of this before where a bot, would fill out a form over and over with spam, and send it (leading to that exact issue)

extjac's avatar

nope...nothing. Just a register and login. The Laravel out of the box

Sinnbeck's avatar

And you got no information on what sort of content was in the mails or from where they originated?

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Some Australia iMessage email saying "you have a voicemail." I deleted the Keys, contacted AWS, they clear the SES queue. i dont know how they could have got the keys. I concern now.

I know sometimes laravel will through an error and dump the .env file if you are in debug mode; but this is not the case.

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