Last year , around 100 Amazon vendor accounts were reportedly breached by cyber criminal , who funnel money they stole from from Amazon loan and client sales into their own accounts .
The serial of account takeovers are said to have taken space between May and October 2018 , consort toBloomberg , cite redacted court records file by Amazon ’s U.K. attorneys .
Amazon said it could not gloss on the ongoing court of justice case , but its investigation into the matter is reportedly finished .
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The accounts were not hacked ; instead , sellers were tricked into surrendering their credential in what ’s ordinarily known as aphishing attack .
An Amazon representative sound out that seller on occasion experience phishing emails that appear to total from Amazon . The emails are aimed at fritter the vendor into entering their usernames and countersign into a simulated web site .
The fellowship rede sellers not to attempt to login anywhere but Amazon ’s website and only in a internet browser windowpane they ’ve open themselves . More generally , opening data link and written document received by email is a bad surety practice .
The probe , according to Bloomberg , determined that the felon likely ready up accounts at Barclays Plc and Prepay Technologies Ltd. to have the stolen payments , a percentage of which Amazon itself paid out in loans to merchants .
In a statement , Barclays state it endeavor to keep out down felon ’ accounts as quick as potential .
Amazon further sellers who believe they ’ve been targeted by phishing email to connect with the company at:[email protect ]
[ Bloomberg ]
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