Steve Jobs' Amazon account hacked? 20,000 items in 10 years?
According to Cult of Mac's Leander Kahney, a hacker by the name of “orin0co” had phished Steve Jobs' Amazon password using a fake Amazon page awhile ago and has been pulling data out of it for the last few years. He's recently been sending out screenshots to journalists saying the highest bidder will get the pharmed information. He/she claims that the purchasing record includes 20,000 items over the last 10 years. Who says no one reads anymore?!
If true, this could be quite a crime. However, a screenshot and an email aren't really enough to believe this person yet. You could just change your name to "Steve Jobs" in Amazon's settings, take some screenshots and wammo! Look! We got Barack Obama's Amazon account!!
Maybe Leander is the one being phished. We'll keep an eye on how/if this develops.
The email is pasted below:
Hi,
The reason am writing to you is that your book is among first to
sell in amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/steve-jobs-Books/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Steve%20Jobs&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3ASteve%20Jobs&page=1
I will try to be as short as possible:
2 years ago, I set a amazon.com fake page, and sent emails to different IT people around the globe. Among some other unknown person, Steve Jobs got my mail, he didn’t notice the scam I set so he “updated” his amazon account with data( name, address, credit card number, phone, amazon user and password) which I received, sent to my mail.
Now, it was not my intention to misuse his account (which is still untouched!), the sole purpose was if the “scam” was so perfect that even IT Guru’s will fall on it.
I saw you are the bestseller with a book on S.Jobs, I still have access on his amazon.com account, with all his purchase/interest details for 6-7 years. Now I just checked again, and he didn’t use it since December 22 last year, for reasons known to us.
I intent to sell this information, that’s why I picked you as first on the list.
If you are not interested, am sure other book authors on SJ life (Jeffrey Young, William Simon, Alan Deutschman, Anthony Imbimbo, Daniel Lyons or any others) will be very interested to know about this.
Hope to hear from you,
Regards
p.s. I can provide “print screens” logged in SJ amazon account.
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Comments (17)
Isn't this just plain old fraud? If he actually sells someone's personal details as he is offering he would just be arrested no? And because this crosses state lines in terms of the difference between where he is and where the buyer is, wouldn't the FBI be involved? Or Interpol if it's international? This guy is clearly an idiot regardless of whether it's really Steve Jobs' account.
Also, for the record several professors at the University I work at have bigger Amazon bills than this. If you aren't limited by money, or in the case of the professors, aren't spending your *own* money, it's pretty easy to buy five books or CD's a day. If you buy stuff for other people it's even easier, and if your account is actually for a whole family then that would make a difference as well.
justsend the money to Nigeria and you'll be granted access...
nice spin on it though.
If this is THE "Steve Jobs" account on Amazon, then given the volume of purchasing, it seems like he isn't the actual USER of the account.
Even I, a mid-level guy in a big organization, have an admin assistant that buys stuff for me on-line, using my corporate CC, using an account in "my" name.
lol, but i ask who cares what he buys? we will uncover secrets by what he bought on amazon in the past 5 years ooooooooooo
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That third item is just a bag of hurt.
20,000 items over 10 years? Hmmm... 2000 items per year? 5 or 6 items every single day?
Doesn't seem legit to me. He doesn't have time to read/watch/play with all of that run Pixar and Apple at the same time.
Steve *would* have an Amazon Prime account...
lucky!
ah, steve is buying cd at amazon. then sells at iTunes-Store. not bad. ;-)
Why is Barack Obama looking at Sling Players?
Check it out -- the "Barack Obama" screenshots created by changing your name says at the top:
Note that the log-out link ("Not Barack?") mentions first-name only; the Steve Jobs one says:
PHOTOSHOP FAIL. It's the little details that get you...
...when he remembers his MacBook Pro doesn't have a Blu-ray drive. Damn licenses!
The real crime is this guy's grammar!
The real crime is this guy's grammar!
I wonder what type of player he has? PS3?
What a strange person this Orinoco must be?
To come up with such an elaborate scam to "hack" someones Amazon account (not exactly Rock n Roll) and then try to sell it to his Biographers!!!
Surely he could have come up with a more elaborate scam than that? Like use his account to buy some p*rn and then send that info to everyone who works at Apple! Now that would cause a stir!
I DON'T !
I would say that guy used Firebug, which allows you to modify the HTML code and reflect it in the page dynamically.
Notice that he is using Firefox, and he erased the bottom right corner, which Firebug's icon is placed.