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Originally Posted by karunaji
I understood your post fine. I just added that credit card details were also stolen in Sony data leak (and otherwise available in great quantities to hackers in darknet). So, in some case it might be possible to thieves to re-enter cc data when required.
There are no indications that Amazon is hacked but that's not an issue. Many companies have been irresponsible with customer data. In any case how did Amazon knew that the account was hijacked? They surely knew something was not right. Maybe they correlated Sony leaked data with their customer activities and saw that some transactions that otherwise would look like gift shopping are most likely frauds.
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No they probably did what everyone else did and used the database that was made available. It allows anyone to input an email address and find out if it was compromised. I know this is how LinkedIn, Twitter, and iTunes did it.