OT: Amazon Got Hacked, Ran Up $40k in Purchases in minutes.

[alt f4]

Woke up at 2am to endless notifications to find out someone ordered $40k worth of Amazon to be delivered to a house in North Platte. My wife has a habit of using the cart as a wish list so there was about $6k+ there with 50ish items in cart, plus 18 laptops, a sectional, and a $5,300 sunroom/canopy. I spent about 3 hours canceling orders and filing fraud complaints on Amazon and credit cards. Luckily the final laptop order was canceled a few minutes ago. It's a nightmare trying to cancel orders by Amazon 3rd Parties.

Then as that's happening I get about 1,000+ email newsletters, account verifications, and website sign-ups.

717 W D ST
NORTH PLATTE, NE 69101-7517

Found out it was the Under Armour hack which exposed the same password I used for my email. So moral of story, don't reuse passwords and don't put high limit credit cards on Amazon account.

 

[Ironwardog]

my wife and I had both of our credit cards hacked a few weeks ago. Thankfully it was caught right away because it was the last day of the month and my payment is due the first of the next month so I was checking it. Two smaller (small in comparison your mess) charges around $50 each that I caught with weird descriptions. I called chase to report them and I had to wait 30 minutes, and the guy I talked to said fraud is normally very high this time of year but for some reason it seems even worse this year.

 

[God is a Husker]

I've prosecuted 2 of your neighbors before.

1 assault and to be fair, the dude he assaulted needed punched in the face.

1 for meth (obviously)

 

[vailhusker]

Woke up at 2am to endless notifications to find out someone ordered $40k worth of Amazon to be delivered to a house in North Platte. My wife has a habit of using the cart as a wish list so there was about $6k+ there with 50ish items in cart, plus 18 laptops, a sectional, and a $5,300 sunroom/canopy. I spent about 3 hours canceling orders and filing fraud complaints on Amazon and credit cards. Luckily the final laptop order was canceled a few minutes ago. It's a nightmare trying to cancel orders by Amazon 3rd Parties.

Then as that's happening I get about 1,000+ email newsletters, account verifications, and website sign-ups.

717 W D ST
NORTH PLATTE, NE 69101-7517

Found out it was the Under Armour hack which exposed the same password I used for my email. So moral of story, don't reuse passwords and don't put high limit credit cards on Amazon account.

Nice place you have there -

 

[Bulldog10]

Coworker had $5000 taken out of his checking account.

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

Nice place you have there -

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Guys I assume this is the home of the fraudster (or as the stupid Monthly corporate fraud trainings I have to take call it “bad actor”), not highly regarded OP @alt f4

 

[SlumpBuster]

I had something similar happen once, just protect your email sign-in higher than almost any other sign in for sure (and setup 2FA) because it's used as validation everywhere.

And places you can purchase, try hard to have different and rotating passwords

 

[king_kong_]

 

[Quint]

I lost my keys a few years back.

 

[alt f4]

Nice place you have there -

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Not my place. That's the drop house.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Not my place. That's the drop house.

Maybe get a credit card with a higher limit next time so they can just buy the drop house?

 

[cwessel76]

Not my place. That's the drop house.

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

I've prosecuted 2 of your neighbors before.

1 assault and to be fair, the dude he assaulted needed punched in the face.

1 for meth (obviously)

Is there a mug shot of punchable face man?

 

[cwessel76]

Is there a mug shot of punchable face man?

 

[Quint]

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Wait a minute.

Is he in the Raiola family tree?

Looks a bit like Dom.

 

[LoudHogRider]

Wait a minute.

Is he in the Raiola family tree?

Looks a bit like Dom.

One is Poly; the other is Irish. IF we blend that, we get Polish. Dean Callahanski.

 

[PonyBoy]

717 W D ST
NORTH PLATTE, NE 69101-7517

Owned by AMDD Properties, LLC out of North Platte.

James Hawks is the registered agent for AMDD.

Earlier this year, a Jim Hawks was appointed to the State Highway Commission. Not sure if it's the same person.

Likely a client of @Jim14510

 

[Jim14510]

Owned by AMDD Properties, LLC out of North Platte.

James Hawks is the registered agent for AMDD.

Earlier this year, a Jim Hawks was appointed to the State Highway Commission. Not sure if it's the same person.

Likely a client of @Jim14510

No comments at this time.

 

[BugeaterInWa]

OP it sounds like your bank might suck a little bit.

Im all kinds of confident NFCU would have stopped this from happening or at least getting anywhere close to that level. Heck, they actually call us sometimes to make sure its us buying something.

Sorry it happened and good advice for those unaware.

 

[doublewing]

I work in cyber security so I have a heightened level of paranoia in the online world.

2FA everything, enable pass keys on apps that have them, and use unique passwords on your apps (easiest via a PW manager).