A hacker contacted Leander Kahney of Wired's Cult of Mac with claims that he broke into Steve Job’s private Amazon.com account and then attempted to sell details of Jobs’ purchasing history of the past several years and his credit card number to the site.

According to the hacker, who identifies himself as “orin0co”, Jobs is a frequent online shopper and has purchased 20,000 items from the popular online shopping site in the last decade.

The hacker claims he sent Jobs an official-looking email that tricked him into entering his Amazon password and username. If this is true, that means Jobs would be the latest victim of a phishing scam.

Ryan Olson, director of the Rapid Response Team at iDefense, said it was possible that Jobs had fallen victim to a targeted attack. “Yeah, I think it’s plausible,” he said. “It would not be hard to get a lot of his information because he’s a celebrity.”

The hacker claimed that neither Jobs nor Amazon were aware of the break in because he went undetected, though he sent a screen shot of what appears to be Jobs’ account at Amazon.com and shows three purchases: A Blu-Ray DVD, a HBO miniseries on DVD, and a copy of The Nuclear Express, a history of the nuclear bomb. Boom!



However, orin0co’s story is a bit fishy, considering there is no proof and Apple isn’t talking. Additionally, screenshots are easily faked and it doesn’t seem likely that if Jobs is such an out-of-control online shopper that his last purchase would be in October 2008.

Check out Leander's email coorespondence with the "hacker."