14 DAY TRIAL // A hacker claims to have tricked Steve Jobs into entering his credit card information on a fake Amazon.com, a practice commonly known as phishing, or whaling, in the case of celebs like Apple's iconic CEO.
“I got myself a hold of this information,” the hacker wrote in an email sent from a secure Hushmail account. “No one else has it. I didn’t misuse it, otherwise Mr. Jobs would long ago change his login detail, wouldn’t he?”
“2 years ago, I set a amazon.com fake page, and sent emails to different IT people around the globe,” orin0co added in the email, according to Cult of Mac. “Among some other unknown person, Steve Jobs got my mail, he didn't notice the scam I set so he 'updated' his amazon account with data (name, address, credit card number, phone, amazon user and password) which I received, sent to my mail.”
“I had not heard any rumors about Steve Jobs’ Amazon account being compromised as a result of a phish,” Patty Smith, director of Amazon.com’s corporate communications, commented in an email. “We have a good deal of information on our web site designed to educate our customers about the various phishing scams, and ways that they can protect themselves.”
The hacker claims that Jobs has purchased no more, no less than 20,000 items from Amazon in the past ten years. The Register appropriately points out that a binge like this “could rival the legendary shopping sprees of Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton.” More recently, the hacker disclosed, Jobs allegedly bought a Blu-Ray DVD, an HBO miniseries on DVD, and a copy of The Nuclear Express, a history of the nuclear bomb. “Imagine how safe Mac is if you can trick the mighty Steve Jobs,” orin0co added.
Softpedia note: it is irrelevant to claim Macs aren't safe simply because the company's CEO (who is human) has been tricked (if even true) into entering his credit card information on a fake website. Maybe Mr. Jobs is not a big fan of 1Password... Whether or not the story is true, we'd say it's pretty fantastic.
According to The Register, the hacker also asked Cult of Mac whether or not it would buy the information from him. The Cult refused.