In the meantime, some Reg comment posters have noted that those with Amazon Prime can see some of their non-Amazon devices showing up via the Prime Devices screen. Amazon appears clueless as to how it happened, and we both have been left very worried."Īmazon has yet to get back to The Register on repeated requests for comment, though our original tipster, Reddit user fidelisoris, told us they have heard from Amazon that there is an investigation underway. On this occasion she didn’t get a text, but they did manage to make the purchase. "She did not have two-factor authentication enabled at the time, so this was the first thing we did on her Amazon account on that occasion, the theory being that if somebody compromised her email or guessed her password, they would hit the 2FA, and she would get a text with the code. "Just to give you some background, her account was hacked previously when somebody compromised her email account," Adgey told us. Reader Brian Adgey has had to deal with his mother's account suffering from mysterious charges via an unknown device. "Now I only use it for Prime viewing but it does offer to pay for films etc. My LG TV isn't shown," noted one netizen. Other readers have noticed their Android devices fail to appear in the main account settings despite being otherwise logged into their accounts, presumably because these gizmos are non-Amazon gadgets and/or because they are hidden away in Amazon Prime settings. It does not reflect the two smart TVs, one Samsung, the other Vizio," he said. It reflects my two Fire tablets and my Firestick. At first, he couldn't see any unexpected devices linked to his account in the main settings – but then he found two smart TVs, made by Samsung and Vizio, in an Amazon Prime page listing supposedly authorized devices. A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account – and web giant did nothing about it for months READ MOREĭ'Shade told us he was able to get Amazon to reverse the charges, and has changed all associated passwords.
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