Someone tried to access my Amazon account precautions needed?

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xyeovillian

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#293974 25-Feb-2022 09:47

Had a message last night =

(Here is a quick summary...Sign-in When Device Feb 24, 2022 07:51 PM Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Smartphone) Canterbury, New Zealand)

I immediately changed my password, Do I need to change anything else tried looking on Amazon couldn't see anything helpful there.

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#2874578 25-Feb-2022 09:52

Make sure you have 2FA on everything that supports it. Change your email address password. Change the password on any other account that used the same password as Amazon (you don't use the same password on different sites, right?)

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#2874584 25-Feb-2022 09:59

Remove any attached credit cards too.

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#2874740 25-Feb-2022 13:57

SaltyNZ:
Make sure you have 2FA on everything that supports it.

Amazon in particular supports Authy, enable that now.

However they also have problems with false positives, if you have a Samsung Galaxy and the Amazon app installed then on it was most likely that doing some update of Amazon info that went wrong and was reported as a hacking attempt. In particular an attack from a cellphone in NZ rather than a server in Russia seems a bit unlikely.

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#2874956 25-Feb-2022 16:15

Sorry guys my mistake it was my granddaughter trying to access Prime video in Christchurch, must be getting old!

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#2874992 25-Feb-2022 17:42

Good to hear it wasn't something nefarious, though it is still a good reminder to secure accounts with 2FA if people haven't done it already!

I've just gone to double check, especially with the increased use of Amazon.com.au these days.

Yann