{"id":13349,"date":"2016-01-25T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:41:31","slug":"amazons-customer-service-backdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/amazons-customer-service-backdoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&rsquo;s Customer Service Backdoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@espringe\/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4\">Eric Springer<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=10963568\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/16\/01\/25\/1311209\/amazons-customer-service-backdoor\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@espringe\/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4\"><p>The attacker gave Amazon my fake details from a whois query, and got my real address and phone number in exchange. Now they had enough to bounce around a few services, even convincing my bank to issue them a new copy of my Credit Card.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> I again contact Amazon to reiterate how important it is that they keep my account secure, and not give out my details to anyone with a name and address. They promise they&rsquo;re putting a note on my account, and it&rsquo;ll never happen again. And I will be contacted by a specialist (never happened, again)<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Springer (Hacker News, Slashdot): The attacker gave Amazon my fake details from a whois query, and got my real address and phone number in exchange. Now they had enough to bounce around a few services, even convincing my bank to issue them a new copy of my Credit Card. [&#8230;] I again contact Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,48],"class_list":["post-13349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13350,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions\/13350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}