[karunaji]

So, some people are getting their Amazon accounts compromised. The question is, how does it happen? Several possible answers:

1) It is due to trojans on those people computers. In this case as long as your computer remains compromised, changing passwords will not be very affective as the bad guys will get a new password soon. First you should ensure that your computer is secure.

2) Are Amazon servers broken in and data stolen? Not very likely but with the news how Sony and many other seemingly respectable companies have lost a lot of important customer info and even repeatedly so, everything is possible. Amazon should be more open how do they think these accounts are compromised.

3) Most likely version is that it is indeed connected with Sony and similar hacks and we see dangers of password reuse. In this case thieves now have your e-mail address and password that you use for another site and it happens that your Amazon login is exactly the same.

Amazon is one of very attractive targets. The thieves can easily order electronics worth thousands of dollars to be sent to any address they want as Amazon is less restrictive about sending items to a new address that is different from your billing account. My experience is that they will even send the stuff to another country without any question or asking for confirmation unlike many other online shops.

So be careful and change your password to a unique one. It doesn't have to be extremely complicated or long. It is enough that it cannot be easy guessed and different from any other password you may have for any other site.