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Jobs' Amazon account exposed, idiot wants to sell details

Brad Sams   on 14 May 2009 - 16:54 · 84 comments & 8917 views

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When you're a celebrity or a high profile citizen, it's not uncommon to be targeted by selfish individuals looking to make a dollar at your expense. It's possible that Steve Jobs has fallen victim to a phishing scam that may have given access to his Amazon account.

CultofMac.com is reporting that they have been contacted by a phishing artist who managed to get into Steve Jobs' Amazon account by claiming to have "sent Jobs a phony but official-looking email that tricked him into logging onto a fake Amazon.com website".

Like any greedy individual, the phishing artist wants to sell the details of what items Jobs has purchased, which he claims to be over 20,000 items over the last 10 years, or about 5 items a day.

The phishing artist goes by the name of orin0co, and claims neither Jobs nor Amazon knew of the intrusion because he didn't change the password on the account. The phishing attack was a well-crafted email that "instead of spamming millions with scattershot email scams, ...targeted high-worth corporate executives with cleverly-crafted emails full of personal details. The executives received messages that appeared to come from the Better Business Bureau, Internal Revenue Service, or Federal Trade Commission, among others."

Even if this turns out to be a hoax, it's a good reminder to keep strong and secure passwords. Use a variation of numbers, letters and symbols when possible and don't keep the same password for every site.


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(2 replies) #1 cabron on 14 May 2009 - 18:37
Holy crap!
#1.1 Jaron on 15 May 2009 - 03:44
I won't believe it. How can someone like Steve Job fall for this?
#1.2 vanacid on 16 May 2009 - 11:57
I can do the same thing easily.
1. Register to Amazon.
2. Tell them my name is Steve Jobs on the registration page
3. Buy some things
4. ...
5. profit

SOOOO FAKE !
(7 replies) #2 BigBoy on 14 May 2009 - 18:42
I expect that Jobs should be using Windows with IE8 to get that phishing filtering...
#2.1 superhuman on 14 May 2009 - 18:52
or Firefox... is ok too. Or get a pc then run linux if he hates windows so much. There are many choices. If he used M$ outlook, this would not happen.
#2.2 simon360 on 14 May 2009 - 18:57
Or Safari 4... or Safari on the iPhone 3.0. Phishing filters aren't anything special, although Apple was slow to add it to their browsers. I have no doubt Jobs is on Apple's beta software.
#2.3 VIVIsectVI on 14 May 2009 - 22:13
simon360 said,
Or Safari 4... or Safari on the iPhone 3.0. Phishing filters aren't anything special, although Apple was slow to add it to their browsers. I have no doubt Jobs is on Apple's beta software.


Which apparently works just swell, eh?
#2.4 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:29
LOL. MS Outlook would have protected him so well, along with IE8.

But I guess this blows the whole, Mac's are 100% secure and don't have any worries commercial out of the water. Good job, orin0co!
#2.5 simon360 on 14 May 2009 - 22:54
If someone does something stupid, they do something stupid. Additionally, this was probably aimed specifically at Jobs. No phishing filter can detect a new site, it's always based on threats already discovered.
#2.6 vetmarkjensen on 14 May 2009 - 23:17
andrewbares said,
LOL. MS Outlook would have protected him so well, along with IE8.

But I guess this blows the whole, Mac's are 100% secure and don't have any worries commercial out of the water. Good job, orin0co!

What does having a weak password, or replying to a phishing email have to do with your OS security?

Let me answer for that for you, since you seem to miss the linkage.

There is no link. No corresponding statistic. No connection.
#2.7 Tim Dawg on 16 May 2009 - 05:38
markjensen said,
andrewbares said,
LOL. MS Outlook would have protected him so well, along with IE8.

But I guess this blows the whole, Mac's are 100% secure and don't have any worries commercial out of the water. Good job, orin0co!

What does having a weak password, or replying to a phishing email have to do with your OS security?

Let me answer for that for you, since you seem to miss the linkage.

There is no link. No corresponding statistic. No connection.



Because Outlook and/or IE8 would've warned him that it's a phishing site or phishing e-mail. Mac's don't do that hence the great Steve Jobs is tricked into giving up his personal details.

That's the link.
(2 replies) #3 Ravemaster on 14 May 2009 - 18:55
Oh dear. If this is true, then Jobs will be on a screaming bloody rampage for this person's head.
Brb going to grab pitchfork for the witch hunt.
#3.1 Philip Hristov on 14 May 2009 - 19:30
Steve Jobs is on dead bed anyways, he couldn't care less.
#3.2 chisss on 15 May 2009 - 11:52
Philip Hristov said,
Steve Jobs is on dead bed anyways, he couldn't care less.

That was just wrong dude....
(6 replies) #4 HeartsOfWar on 14 May 2009 - 19:00
I don't normally post criticism regarding the news on this site, but I wonder what the author was thinking when he chose to add 'idiot' to the title. The guy may not be morally or legally sound in his decision to phish, but plenty of people make their living selling personal details about celebrities. A sad fact of life, but that doesn't make the guy an 'idiot'...

[< snipped > - Calum]

Last edited by Calum on 14 May 2009 - 20:06
#4.1 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:31
Yea, this orin0co guy isn't an idiot. He finally has helped prove that Mac's do have worries and security problems just like PC's! Maybe Apple fill finally stop lying in their commercials, it's making me really upset (My first word choice was censored, lol).
#4.2 vetmarkjensen on 14 May 2009 - 23:18
andrewbares said,
Yea, this orin0co guy isn't an idiot. He finally has helped prove that Mac's do have worries and security problems just like PC's! Maybe Apple fill finally stop lying in their commercials, it's making me really upset (My first word choice was censored, lol).

See my above post 1.6

If you think that a weak password, or falling for social engineering has anything to do with how secure the OS is, then I pray you don't work with computers.
#4.3 RealFduch on 15 May 2009 - 16:00
markjensen said,
See my above post 1.6

If you think that a weak password, or falling for social engineering has anything to do with how secure the OS is, then I pray you don't work with computers.

What "post 1.6"?

And do you really think that anyone who hacks anything Apple related is an "idiot"? Where did all the moderational zeal on the "calling other people names" go?
#4.4 epple on 15 May 2009 - 19:02
Haha, I don't recall anyone calling the ones who hack random celebrity accounts "idiots" and "selfish", but when it comes to the god that is Steve Jobs.. Oh my.

BTW, Neowin + Firefox =
#4.5 Skwerl on 15 May 2009 - 21:32
"Idiot" seems halfway appropriate, but scumbag, jackass, loser, or douchebag might be even more appropriate. What a stupid thing to do, and then try to sell! What kind of lifeless fool would even care what the CEO of a company purchases at Amazon?
#4.6 vetmarkjensen on 16 May 2009 - 04:12
RealFduch said,
markjensen said,
See my above post 1.6

If you think that a weak password, or falling for social engineering has anything to do with how secure the OS is, then I pray you don't work with computers.

What "post 1.6"?

And do you really think that anyone who hacks anything Apple related is an "idiot"? Where did all the moderational zeal on the "calling other people names" go?

Sorry. 2.6 Way to get pedantic on the typo.

And what the heck are you dragging me into a discussion point I did not make or support with regards to the term "idiot". Firstly, I never claimed anyone hacking an Apple is an idiot. Secondly, an Apple wasn't hacked - just an online account credential.

Save your scorn for someone else, rather than throwing it around at random.
#5 +Frazell Thomas on 14 May 2009 - 19:02
Wow relax... That read like the author felt like someone has stolen his mom's bank account number. I'm sure Jobs fixed his account information and it realy isn't that big of a deal.

I for one don't really feel sorry for Jobs if it is his account. He shouldn't fall victim to that stuff, but I guess he took those Mac Vs PC ads a bit too seriously...
(2 replies) #6 Examinus on 14 May 2009 - 19:19
Is Steve building a bomb?
#6.1 rakeshishere on 14 May 2009 - 19:47
iBomb
#6.2 +chconline on 16 May 2009 - 02:36
rakeshishere said,
iBomb


Better have a touchscreen
(1 reply) #7 +bmdixon on 14 May 2009 - 19:27
I call BS
Anyone can change their name on amazon to Steve Jobs. Look i just have!
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8129/stevejobs.png
OMG I haxxored Steve's account /sarcasm
Unless there is actual proof that this is THE Steve Jobs' account then this is worthless......

EDIT: Removed image tags as it's a bit big.
#7.1 Solid Knight on 14 May 2009 - 22:59
I was going to say the same thing.
(1 reply) #8 Rob on 14 May 2009 - 19:28
Article edited to fix some spelling and grammar issues. And cheers bmdixon, was just editing your post to do the same :p
#8.1 noroom on 14 May 2009 - 20:15
How is a phishing case a reminder to keep a strong and secure password? It doesn't matter if it's 3 paragraphs long and contains each symbol in the unicode alphabet at least twice.
(1 reply) #9 TonyLock on 14 May 2009 - 19:37
Huh! This proves iMail is crap!
#9.1 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:33
lol very true. MS Outlook would have saved Jobs in this senario, as in many others.
(5 replies) #10 KavazovAngel on 14 May 2009 - 19:40
Now how about removing that "idiot" word from the title?
#10.1 Julius Caro on 14 May 2009 - 19:46
KavazovAngel said,
Now how about removing that "idiot" word from the title?


I know right? Unprofessional doesnt have to mean low-class
#10.2 nonick on 14 May 2009 - 19:49
Julius Caro said,
I know right? Unprofessional doesnt have to mean low-class


Agreed. Keep personal opinions.. well.. personal.
#10.3 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:34
4-thed.
#10.4 roadwarrior on 15 May 2009 - 04:44
I was given a warning for posting a link to the old "you are an idiot" flash site in response to a specific post by another member. Why should I get a warning when a news poster is allowed to call someone else an idiot directly in the title of a main news post? Mods, either remove that warn on my account, or fix the title here. You can't have it both ways.
#10.5 chisss on 15 May 2009 - 11:53
Also if you are going to call someone an idiot I wouldn't pick the scam artist for that... I would call the one who fell for it an idiot....
(1 reply) #11 hotdog963al on 14 May 2009 - 19:44
In other news: It's pretty easy to make the news!
#11.1 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:34
In other news: It's pretty easy to make the news labeled as an "idiot"!
(2 replies) #12 kouhii00 on 14 May 2009 - 19:54
If orin0co is an idiot like the title said. The person who got tricked by the idiot must be.....
#12.1 donBoomy on 14 May 2009 - 20:18
yes
#12.2 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:35
3rd-ed.
(5 replies) #13 soldier1st on 14 May 2009 - 19:58
i bet steve jobs used his crappy safari which claims to be very good but it turns out it is worse than IE,perhaps steve jobs should use firefox or opera instead of that piece of garbage safari. if and when steve jobs dies he should tell apple to let go of all there restrictions of all and donate all his money to charity or to the poor.
#13.1 hotdog963al on 14 May 2009 - 21:15
Shows how much you know. To say Safari is "worse" than IE, is completely and utterly ignorant. Read up on WebKit.
#13.2 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:37
Um Safari is worse than IE. That's my personal oppinion. There's no better or worse really, just oppinions. Vanilla ice-cream's better than chocolate, well no, chocholate's better!! It'll never be decided, but what we do know is that if Jobs was using IE8 and MS Outlook, this would have been a lot more unlikely to happen.

And Microsoft is a better company because they donate so much. That's just very kind of them, so stop calling them M$.
#13.3 simon360 on 14 May 2009 - 23:00
It's all about what you want in a browser. If IE or Safari works for you, then stick with it. Even Firefox or Opera.

However, in this case, it's a moot point. Safari has the same phishing protection as Firefox. You can only detect a phishing attack if it's been discovered before, and I doubt someone would target Jobs with a mass mailing.

Additionally, it's probably a fake. It's easy enough to say "Look who I hacked!". It's another to actually prove that the account belongs to them.
#13.4 dagrimdialer619 on 15 May 2009 - 07:35
hotdog963al said,
Shows how much you know. To say Safari is "worse" than IE, is completely and utterly ignorant. Read up on WebKit.


Exactly.
#13.5 RealFduch on 15 May 2009 - 16:02
dagrimdialer619 said,
Exactly.

The browser in question is not "Webkit" it's Safari. And it is BAD. Why would any browser let sites to palce executible files on your desktop without your consent? (non-issue for Apple)
(1 reply) #14 Smethead on 14 May 2009 - 20:04
Who cares what anyone bought on amazon? Why would anyone pay for that?
#14.1 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:39
b/c Mac people worship Jobs like a god. (lol, I'm referring to that MadTV clip of steve jobs introducing the iphone, lol)
#15 mmck on 14 May 2009 - 20:22
orin0co should at least learn to use paint text before he/she claims to be able to effectively phish - this looks more like some fun a 5 year old had at the weekend.
(2 replies) #16 C_Guy on 14 May 2009 - 20:35
Oh please. It's not hard to register on Amazon as "Steve Jobs" so chances are it is fake.

And if it happens to be genuine, the idiot isn't the person selling the data. The true idiot is the person who thinks it is money well spent. So Steve bought some stuff on Amazon, how does that impact anyone's life? Get a grip.
#16.1 Sam Symons on 14 May 2009 - 21:01
C_Guy said,
Oh please. It's not hard to register on Amazon as "Steve Jobs" so chances are it is fake.

And if it happens to be genuine, the idiot isn't the person selling the data. The true idiot is the person who thinks it is money well spent. So Steve bought some stuff on Amazon, how does that impact anyone's life? Get a grip.

For once I agree. I couldn't care less what famous people have purchased... how will this benefit anyone in any way?
#16.2 eck0 on 15 May 2009 - 08:13
C_Guy said,
Oh please. It's not hard to register on Amazon as "Steve Jobs" so chances are it is fake.

And if it happens to be genuine, the idiot isn't the person selling the data. The true idiot is the person who thinks it is money well spent. So Steve bought some stuff on Amazon, how does that impact anyone's life? Get a grip.


I also agree with you for once, but highly doubt this is genuine.
#17 Lannister on 14 May 2009 - 20:49
Wow, and lol, at the writer for taking it so personally. It wasn't your Amazon account compromised.
(1 reply) #18 TonyLock on 14 May 2009 - 21:07
iHacked coz iDumb, therefore iAm!
#18.1 andrewbares on 14 May 2009 - 22:39
+1
#19 LiquidSolstice on 14 May 2009 - 21:08
So what is the process of taking this down from ebay?

I heard they did it for people selling the free tickets to Obama's inauguration.
#20 +Xerxes on 14 May 2009 - 22:11
I see no evidence this is really his account, he's not the only Steve Jobs in the world my bets are on this is fake.
(5 replies) #21 splur on 14 May 2009 - 22:35
"At the time this scam occurred, Jobs was on a PC with IE8, his friend's computer, while checking his email. Jobs stated that, 'I only went on the PC for a couple minutes and look what happened! I really had no other choice.'

If he had been on a Mac using Safari, this would have never happened."

*this is a joke* I almost always think that I need a legal disclaimer at the bottom of any of my sarcastic posts.
#21.1 Solid Knight on 14 May 2009 - 23:02
...Phishing scams are platform independent so the joke doesn't really work.
#21.2 splur on 14 May 2009 - 23:33
Wow you serious? People on here never cease to amaze me. New definition of thick skull.
#21.3 Solid Knight on 14 May 2009 - 23:57
Relax, I have a sense of humor.
#21.4 splur on 15 May 2009 - 03:17
Oh, thus why you should've included the disclaimer. I dunno, you should've seen the responses to my other post about macs.
#21.5 RealFduch on 15 May 2009 - 16:04
Solid Knight said,
...Phishing scams are platform independent so the joke doesn't really work.

They are? Most of the Mac people would disagree with you.
#22 simon360 on 14 May 2009 - 23:08
Let's set a few things straight here before anyone else blames OS X or Safari or Mail.

Phishing filters should not be a requirement. Simple as that. Someone as educated in the tech industry as Steve Jobs knows when they are being targeted. They know the signs to look for. They know to check for security certificates, and valid ones at that, for big sites like Amazon. So I am 100% sure that this is fake.

Regardless, say he was an everyday Joe. Safari has anti-phishing built in. Mail has pretty good spam/phishing detection. And the OS simply has nothing to do with it.

The way a phishing filter works is through past experience. If a phishing site is discovered, it is added to a large list of other sites. Same way a virus works: different routine to create it, different routine to remove it. You can't just say "he should've used a different browser" because a site wasn't yet added to the filter. If an attack is aimed specifically at one person, an idea not too far out of the question, a phishing filter will not detect it. Even if it's detected as spam, some people may click through.

But we have to go back to the first point and be rational about this. We're talking about a billionaire who made it through the tech industry. Not just a businessman, but a businessman who sold computers through the birth of the Internet. He knows what a phishing attack is as well as anyone on this site, and I doubt any of us would blindly put our password into a site linked to us in a e-mail.
(1 reply) #23 Athernar on 15 May 2009 - 01:34
Don't get the point of this line:
Even if this turns out to be a hoax, it's a good reminder to keep strong and secure passwords. Use a variation of numbers, letters and symbols when possible


What good is a strong password if you're dumb enough to get phished?
#23.1 eck0 on 15 May 2009 - 08:14
Athernar said,
Don't get the point of this line:


What good is a strong password if you're dumb enough to get phished?



Amateur articles at their finest.
#24 Harbinger on 15 May 2009 - 02:00
Unprofessional journalism != name calling

(1 reply) #25 _X_ on 15 May 2009 - 02:09
Ha yea, the idiot part leapt out at me too. Impartial, love it.
#25.1 dagrimdialer619 on 15 May 2009 - 07:39
iDiot.
#26 starburst1980 on 15 May 2009 - 02:34
And Neowin posts this on the front page:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?auto...;showentry=2792

Impartial? You tell me....


Ontopic:
This is important because I believe that Amazon has their member's personal details and anyways he might have bought things that he doesnt want to get in the public eye.
On a related note, kinda stupid being in the computer industry and not being able to detect with your own eyes a phishing scam.
#27 werdwerdus on 15 May 2009 - 04:24
title should have been "Jobs' Amazon account exposed, wants to sell idiot's details"
#28 theslam08 on 15 May 2009 - 04:34
I dont get people now a days...why in the world would you click ANYTHING in ANY email system that has to do with "account" stuff. NEVER EEEEVVVERRR do I do that, I delete it (if it "looks" like it "might" be important I will READ it, but NOT click ANY links in it.).

If Amazon/paypal/eBay/etc. said to me in an email (like most phishing scams do) you have to log onto your account to update some new security questions, click here:, I would delete THEN GO TO AMAZON.COM MYSELF, typing it in or my OWN bookmark, and logging in to check. Why people believe convenience is ok to be lazy and get screwed I have no clue. Just dumb and ignorant if you ask me.

That beats ANY issue about "oh safari is terrible, IE is terrible, should have used outlook, etc."...actually its the email 'provider' that needs to warn you [if IT knows about it that is], they 'are' the ones handling it first...duh.

Now earlier comments made a good point earlier, its probably fake anyway, and as well, who cares its not like its his bank account details that are up for grabs...
#29 leesmithg on 15 May 2009 - 04:37
Every amazon member knows amazon do not send you emails asking you to login via your email inbox.

Give Forrest back his company he would not fall for that!

#30 Kaidiir on 15 May 2009 - 06:46
iPwnt?
#31 SniperX on 15 May 2009 - 08:19
... if this turns out to be a hoax...

If? Wow. People can be so gullible.
#32 ZalmanLeib on 15 May 2009 - 08:26
I am suprised no one commented yet on SJ buying Blu-Ray how about "The future is in HD itunes downloads" or the "You know, Blu-ray is a bag of hurt. I don't mean from a consumer point of view—it's great to watch movies—but the licensing is so complex.

I guess it wasn't too complex for him to figure it out
#33 Lamp0 on 15 May 2009 - 12:04
If I was Steve Jobs and this was true, I would just publish everything I bought on the web for free. Then the scam hacker guy wouldn't be able to sell anything.
#34 Magallanes on 15 May 2009 - 16:24


and if its not shopped then its just a fake (or a guy with the same name).

Last edited by Magallanes on 15 May 2009 - 16:35
(1 reply) #35 RealFduch on 15 May 2009 - 17:33
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#35.1 carmatic on 16 May 2009 - 19:30
but the article specifically said its a phishing email that did it...
#36 smooth_criminal1990 on 16 May 2009 - 12:19
WOW, I'm gonna be the first one to "hack" the amazon account of "your mum"
#37 Farstrider on 22 May 2009 - 00:23
This piece of rubbish must be the biggest load of bunk I've ever seen posted on Neowin! It should be removed as a matter of urgency!

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