I checked my email and found out that my email address and login password for amazon.com was changed just 2 hours ago.
I called amazon.com immediately upon seeing for myself that my email address and password had been changed. I was unable to log into my account. It took almost an hour to go through the verification process and for them to revert to my prior email address and for me to reset my password.
Had I not seen the notification about my account being changed shortly after it occurred, I could have been 100% screwed for $300 to $400 in purchases made by the thieves, especially if I got around to checking my email tomorrow morning after the merchandise had been shipped express (as usual within 24 hrs.)
Amazon may not want this to be widely known. It's happening right now because someone cracked into Amazon's security. If you are a customer, it is certain that thieves have your login information or at the very least it's highly probable that your login information has been stolen by hackers and thieves.
So if you have an account at amazon.com, you'd better get right to it and change your login details before the hackers do it for you. By the time this gets on TV or announced at Yahoo, or wherever you collect your news or email, it may be too late. You know damn well that there are 100's of thieves working this bounty of good accounts this very moment.
What could be even worse than that, if your login and PW are the same at Amazon as they are at another online retailer or shudder the thought, at a book where you have an offshore account, your money could be at grave risk and you will never know it. They may set your information aside and not use it until football season. I doubt that any bookmaker would be very sympathetic to your cause after he paid the thief that knew your password.
This deal is still in progress as I write. The number of accounts that were compromised are easily in the thousands, very possibly even the millions. Just FYI, the goods that were purchased through my stolen Amazon account had been arranged to ship to a town in Belgium.
The kicker is that once Amazon has plugged the leak and reset the accounts, there are still 10000+ other websites where people may be using the same login info. The hackers could end up milking this bonanza for a long time.
I called amazon.com immediately upon seeing for myself that my email address and password had been changed. I was unable to log into my account. It took almost an hour to go through the verification process and for them to revert to my prior email address and for me to reset my password.
Had I not seen the notification about my account being changed shortly after it occurred, I could have been 100% screwed for $300 to $400 in purchases made by the thieves, especially if I got around to checking my email tomorrow morning after the merchandise had been shipped express (as usual within 24 hrs.)
Amazon may not want this to be widely known. It's happening right now because someone cracked into Amazon's security. If you are a customer, it is certain that thieves have your login information or at the very least it's highly probable that your login information has been stolen by hackers and thieves.
So if you have an account at amazon.com, you'd better get right to it and change your login details before the hackers do it for you. By the time this gets on TV or announced at Yahoo, or wherever you collect your news or email, it may be too late. You know damn well that there are 100's of thieves working this bounty of good accounts this very moment.
What could be even worse than that, if your login and PW are the same at Amazon as they are at another online retailer or shudder the thought, at a book where you have an offshore account, your money could be at grave risk and you will never know it. They may set your information aside and not use it until football season. I doubt that any bookmaker would be very sympathetic to your cause after he paid the thief that knew your password.
This deal is still in progress as I write. The number of accounts that were compromised are easily in the thousands, very possibly even the millions. Just FYI, the goods that were purchased through my stolen Amazon account had been arranged to ship to a town in Belgium.
The kicker is that once Amazon has plugged the leak and reset the accounts, there are still 10000+ other websites where people may be using the same login info. The hackers could end up milking this bonanza for a long time.
