Hacker Breaches Amazon's Kindle
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 07/09/2016 07:05 AM
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A hacker who goes by the handle of @0x2Taylor has tweeted that he, along with a friend, has breached the server for Amazon's Kindle.
He stole the database that held user's email, password, city, state, phone number, zip code, user-agent, LastLoginIP, Proxy IP and street of 80,000 users. He sent several emails and passwords in an effort to legitimize the breach.
@0x2Taylor is asking for $700, partly because the "because the attack was easy", and he wants Amazon to implement better security measures.
"If I don't receive a payment from them the data will be posted online along with an older dump," he said
The hacker posted a screen shot to Amazon of the data at 9:35 a.m. Eastern. At 10:17 a.m., he said in a direct message, "It's going up now. They're ignoring me."
He proved his point at 11:09 a.m. Eastern when he uploaded the database to cloud storage site Mega.
Source: Mic.com
He stole the database that held user's email, password, city, state, phone number, zip code, user-agent, LastLoginIP, Proxy IP and street of 80,000 users. He sent several emails and passwords in an effort to legitimize the breach. @0x2Taylor is asking for $700, partly because the "because the attack was easy", and he wants Amazon to implement better security measures.
"If I don't receive a payment from them the data will be posted online along with an older dump," he said
The hacker posted a screen shot to Amazon of the data at 9:35 a.m. Eastern. At 10:17 a.m., he said in a direct message, "It's going up now. They're ignoring me."
He proved his point at 11:09 a.m. Eastern when he uploaded the database to cloud storage site Mega.
Source: Mic.com
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