100 Amazon Merchants Affected by Six-Month Cyberattack
Return To ArticleAmazon merchants were hit by a ‘serious’ online attack in 2018, with unidentified hackers siphoning funds from 100 seller accounts, according to a Bloomberg report.
The ‘extensive’ fraud occurred between May and October 2018, Bloomberg reported, with hackers breaking into the accounts of roughly 100 Amazon sellers and funneling cash from loans or sales into their own bank accounts. The Bloomberg report is based off a redacted U.K. legal filing from November that has now been made public.
The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said in the filing that it believes the hackers managed to change account details on the Seller Control platform to match their own accounts at Barclays and Prepay Technologies, which is partly owned by Mastercard. The filing doesn’t indicate how the suspected hackers were able to add details of additional banks to the merchant accounts, according to Bloomberg.
