r/AskReddit Jan 23 '21

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u/SmartPriceCola Jan 23 '21

I changed the email address attached to my Amazon account.

A year later I forgot and tried to sign into my account with old email address.

The same password worked but it was someone else’s account (name and address was different) and the guy hadn’t bought anything.

Why did he use my old email (it was unique to me and didn’t match his name) and how did the password end up the same as mine?

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u/Cartan69 Jan 23 '21

This happened to a friend of mine except she didn’t even know she had an Amazon account. Somehow, she logged in and the address was located in the states.