firaplays Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 The email address on an old amazon account of mine was changed earlier today. I called Amazon support and got it fixed (hopefully), I've changed my passwords on other sites, and I ran an antivirus scan that turned up nothing. So now I have no idea how this happened (I haven't opened any links in any emails) and what other information might be compromised. I'm so lost, is there anything else I need to be doing? And how could this have possibly happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillyTook Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Hackers, essentially. You changed the password on your email as well, right? Hackers have tools that allow them to download a copy of a site and others that allow them to set a machine up to "guess" at a password until they get it. No telling why they chose that specific account, they probably didn't just use YOURS, but they're jerks who do :( (just finished a course in hacking related to a computer program I was in.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexinwonderland Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 I think Amazon must have had a security breach recently. I was forced to change my password two days ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firaplays Posted July 7, 2017 Author Share Posted July 7, 2017 My email password is the only thing I haven't been able to change :/ It's a school email, and there was some IT nonsense that was keeping me from changing it without an intervention from the school, but they never ended up resetting the password. I'll have to call again tomorrow and get on their case until they actually do it. I guess the good news is if I can't change the password, nobody else can, either. And it's not like any suspicious ip addresses have actually done anything in my account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky_blue_eyes Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 My twitter was hacked last week, and then Sunday morning I woke up to an Amazon review I didn't make. So I went and chaaannnged all my passwords. I think the twitter was hacked because I don't use it often and they posted an ad to see if I'd catch it.. Not sure what was going on with the Amazon review since it was for Windows keyboard that I'd never look at in a milion years , nor was it available. I assume it is like @GillyTook says and that is probably also what they do to find credit card numbers that work (happened to me a couple of years ago for that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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