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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Sorry, as a web app developer that has to think and worry about security and privacy all the time I am shocked to hear you have two accounts with the same username.
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I can confirm that this certainly /was/ possible to do with Amazon, as I had the same problem some time ago where I ended up with two accounts on Amazon.com, with the same username/email but different passwords, which would take me to different accounts (one was linked to my Amazon Web Services details while the other wasn't). It took me a while to understand what was going on, though, as it was so counter-intuitive!
I can't find the explanation email at the moment, but seem to recall that it was suggested that at one stage, the 'Reset Password' action would create a new account rather than resetting the old account and clearing the stored payment details, then if you remembered/used the 'old' password you got the 'old' account, while the 'new' one took you to the new one.
/Gwyn