Amazon Security Flaw Allows Similar If Not Exact Passwords

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When most of us are inputting new passwords to various websites around the net, we know that one of the things that is most important is that we make sure that we have the caps lock key on or off and that we have to remember what the password is to the letter.

Apparently, a new security flaw being carried out by Amazon.com actually makes it less important to have an exact password. According to new reports the flaw allows people to put extra characters after the eighth character and the passwords apparently aren’t case sensitive. This means that if your password on Amazon is password, the site will allow for various variations on that password such as PASSWORD, passWORD and PaSsWoRd as well as a ton of other iterations.

Luckily for most users this flaw only applies to older Amazon accounts that have not changed their password in quite some time. The easiest way to get rid of this flaw is to head on over to Amazon and change your password right now just in case.