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Parler Claims Amazon Intentionally Left Security Hole for Hackers to Attack Data Centers

Parler, in a court filing, accused Amazon Web Services (AWS) of deliberately leaving open Amazon Route 53, a Domain Name System web service, that essentially provided a green light for hackers to attack its data centers.
Parler’s filing in a Washington state court stated that after AWS took Parler offline, “it did a very curious thing” and “left open Route 53.”
The move, according to Parler, “conveniently directed hackers to our backup datacenters and caused them to initiate a sizeable DNS attack.”
“In other words,” the filing read, “AWS essentially illuminated a large neon arrow directing hackers to Parler’s backup datacenters. And the hackers got the message, launching an extremely large attack” that was “250 times larger and 12 – 24 times longer than the average DDoS attack,” referring to a distributed denial-of-service.
Parler noted that Amazon later terminated its Route 53 link, “but the damage was done.”

 What the hell!?
 Now I'm pretty sure Maetz won't support the idea of going back to Amazon's servers anymore.
 Still, who can now trust Bezos's company won't disappoint the rest of its customers as well!?
Any hacker could easily contact Parler's users or hack another conservative enterprise account in the (near) future.