Hackers Targeting Amazon Third-Party Sellers

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Consumer Reports - 4/10/2017 - Kate Cox - If you've seen something with a too-good-to-be-true price in the Amazon Marketplace lately, there's probably a good reason for that. Or, rather, a bad one, as it seems some fraudsters' new favorite trick is to hijack unsuspecting Amazon sellers' accounts and fleece shoppers for every penny they can. Hacks of Amazon seller accounts aren't exactly new, but they've increased dramatically in recent weeks, The Wall Street Journal reports. It works about the same way so many other hacks and breaches do: Usernames or email addresses and passwords that were stolen in some other breach are sold by those hackers to a whole next wave of would-be fraudsters who then use them to gain access to those users' accounts on other sites. Read more @ http://www.consumerreports.org/scams-fr ... y-sellers/