Hackers disrupted work of the site Amazon

This site was unavailable for 50 minutes.

January 31 this year, Amazon.com site was unavailable for U.S. users. When you try to visit the site issued a message saying that the service is temporarily unavailable.

Site not working for 50 minutes. And even after the page with some products, as well as Amazon S3 cloud service worked fine, front page of the store network was still not available.

Responsible for breaking Amazon took the hacker group Nazi Gods. The attack scammers have in their account at Twitter.

Now correct site restored. Amazon representatives did not provide any comments on the security incident.

Recall that in November 2012 under the pseudonym Darwinaire hacker stole confidential information to more than 600 customers from Amazon UK. Were freely available user names, registration dates, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, as well as some of the passwords in the clear

Users' personal data of Amazon's systems have been published in Open access

Hacker Darwinaire has posted purported data on more than 600 Amazon UK customers online, to prove the hacker attack.

According to ZDNet, the hacker under the alias Darwinaire stole confidential information to more than 600 customers from Amazon UK. Representative of the British Internet company stated that the information could be stolen from its servers.

Recorded in Pastbin, which at the time of publication of news has been removed, Darwinaire claims that it published personal data in order to prove that breaking the regional department Amazon. Were freely available user names, registration dates, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, as well as some of the passwords in the clear.

"There has been no compromise of security Amazon and this information does not come from our database," - said the representative of the company in a statement edition ZDNet.