Unidentified Hackers Hit Amazon

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An extensive group of unidentified hackers has hit Amazon the last year. Funds from over the last six months were siphoned by the hackers who are still not known. It is a threat to Amazon’s security system. The incident happened in the duration of May to October of last year, however, the information was unveiled the last week. 

Legal documents of the United Kingdom was accessed by Amazon and they believe that the hackers had sneaked into around 80 to 100 accounts of Amazon sellers and made them the victim of the incident. The cash the sellers attained from sales or by taking loans were stolen by the hackers. 

It is stated by Amazon that investigation is still going on about the compromised accounts and it has been found out that the hackers had changed the details of the accounts they have stolen from on the Seller Central Platform. MasterCard is one of the partial owners of the platform. 

Amazon’s lawyers requested one of the judges of London to make the approval of searches of account statements at Seller Central Platform, both Prepay and Barclays, it is said that it was mixed up in the wrongdoing innocently.

Amazon needed the documents "to investigate the fraud, identify and pursue the wrongdoers, locate the whereabouts of misappropriated funds, bring the fraud to an end and deter future wrongdoing", the company's lawyers said in the court filing.

The wrongdoers’ activities to perform the wrong is still unknown as the filling didn’t state that about the suspected culprits. 

It was stated by Amazon on the last Tuesday that more than 1 Billion United States Dollars have been issued in loans to merchants in the year 2018. The amount the hackers have stolen from Amazon is still unknown. 

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