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Alibunker86 · 05-01-2019, 11:12 AM

Hi I'm new here, so apologies if I'm not following the correct protocol.
I recently lost a very distinctive 8th Gen Amazon Kindle (left on a plane) and about a week later something very similar turned up on a buy and sell website for sale. The ad showed a screen showing recommendations for the book I'd been reading as well as all my recent viewed books, some less mainstream. The local police contacted the seller, but the serial number didn't match mine despite all this. My question is, is it possible to change the serial number of a Kindle - someone on another website suggested this could be done on the mms - does anyone know if this is straightforward enough for a hacker and any rough ideas how they would do that ( without breaching any ethics on the forum)? My other question is despite being wiped would the device still use the info history on the device as recommendations?
Thanks for any help.

05-01-2019, 11:12 AM	#1
Alibunker86 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2019 Device: Kindle 8th Gen	Kindle Serial Number Change? Hi I'm new here, so apologies if I'm not following the correct protocol. I recently lost a very distinctive 8th Gen Amazon Kindle (left on a plane) and about a week later something very similar turned up on a buy and sell website for sale. The ad showed a screen showing recommendations for the book I'd been reading as well as all my recent viewed books, some less mainstream. The local police contacted the seller, but the serial number didn't match mine despite all this. My question is, is it possible to change the serial number of a Kindle - someone on another website suggested this could be done on the mms - does anyone know if this is straightforward enough for a hacker and any rough ideas how they would do that ( without breaching any ethics on the forum)? My other question is despite being wiped would the device still use the info history on the device as recommendations? Thanks for any help.