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Is your Amazon password secure enough?

Do you have a Linkedin account? Do you use Facebook or Twitter? Have a WordPress Blog or Tumblr? How about Pinterest or other social networks? Gmail or Yahoo!? I hope you’re not using the same password for these personal services as you do for your Amazon account. Earlier this summer over 6.5 million passwords to LinkedIn accounts were leaked and posted to a Russian hacking site.

If your email or social network password is compromised, you don’t want it to affect your business do you? I just heard from an Amazon seller whose Amazon account was hacked (he still isn’t sure how). The hackers posted a few items for sale but didn’t seem to do anything malicious. Nevertheless Amazon revoked his selling privileges and cancelled his account.

There’s no way to be 100% protected against hackers but there are steps you can take to protect your Amazon account:

Remember, this is something that could cost you money or even your entire business. It’s not worth taking chances over.

+Paul Cole

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