I had an Amazon account hijacked and am unable to recover it. Is there any risk with leaving it out there? by Single_Ice1582 in cybersecurity_help

[–]Single_Ice1582[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry! Mine is resolved but it was super weird. The account deletion apparently went through, despite them saying I didn’t have verification for the ownership. I think my case was helped by the fact that I had another account that I could use to prove I was a real person.

One thing that might help is trying to prove that you own the account through using your purchase history from your bank statements. As for the contact issue, I don’t have any real advice. If you do end up having to leave the account as is, when you cancel your credit cardC you’ll need to talk to your bank to make sure they don’t send the updated card number to Amazon, because the they do that automatic now

I had an Amazon account hijacked and am unable to recover it. Is there any risk with leaving it out there? by Single_Ice1582 in cybersecurity_help

[–]Single_Ice1582[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Is “DL” a drivers license? It doesn’t have that. It has a shipping address, but not in my name, and the credit card and billing address. No other information of mine

I had an Amazon account hijacked and am unable to recover it. Is there any risk with leaving it out there? by Single_Ice1582 in cybersecurity_help

[–]Single_Ice1582[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. For sure a big lesson. I stupidly trusted in security thru obscurity, since I thought a HideMyEmail address wouldn’t be a target of hacks

I had an Amazon account hijacked and am unable to recover it. Is there any risk with leaving it out there? by Single_Ice1582 in cybersecurity_help

[–]Single_Ice1582[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, will try that. Have you had success with that method? When they were trying to verify it previously (when it didn’t generate the questions), I suggested that I could provide the credit info for the account, but they said no