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Amazon Warns 220 Million Customers Of Prime Account Attacks


Amazon Prime subscribers are under attack — here’s what you need to know.

NurPhoto via Getty ImagesI know better than most that Amazon Prime subscribers are under attack: I have been on the sharp end of multiple phone calls and email-based threats in the last four weeks alone. ForbesWeb Browser AI Hack Attacks Confirmed — What You Need To KnowBy Davey Winder Pieter Arntz, a malware intelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, has issued a timely July 16 reminder that “scammers are impersonating Amazon in a Prime membership scam.” I say timely, quite besides regular reminders of such attack threats being most welcome, because I have experienced not one, but two of these this week. The phone calls I took, by the way, were similar in outcome but differed in that they wanted me to believe someone had purchased an iPhone 13, of all things, using my account.

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