{"id":175352,"date":"2023-11-03T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/hackers-are-taking-over-starlink-accounts-ordering-thousands-in-equipment"},"modified":"2023-11-03T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T14:22:43","slug":"hackers-are-taking-over-starlink-accounts-ordering-thousands-in-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/hackers-are-taking-over-starlink-accounts-ordering-thousands-in-equipment","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Are Taking Over Starlink Accounts, Ordering Thousands In Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-are-taking-over-starlink-accounts-ordering-thousands-in-equipment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine this scenario: It\u2019s early Saturday morning, you just woke up, and are trying to check the news on your phone while enjoying a cup of coffee. You notice your phone isn\u2019t connected to the internet for some reason. You check the Starlink app for a system status, and it\u2019s offline. Attempts to create a support ticket are unsuccessful, your Starlink account credentials aren\u2019t being accepted. The bank calls a few moments later. They\u2019ve frozen your credit card due to fraud. You listen, stunned, as they explain that someone has ordered over $6,000 worth of Starlink equipment in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>No internet service, thousands of dollars stolen, and no help from Starlink. This is an increasingly common situation faced by Starlink customers. Hackers are gaining access to unsuspecting Starlink accounts, and using the payment information on file to order thousands in equipment. Later, they will resell the equipment on 3rd party marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and Facebook Marketplace. In this article, I\u2019ll explain what\u2019s going on, how to protect yourself, and what Starlink needs to do to prevent more accounts from being hacked.<\/p>\n<p>Table of Contents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this scenario: It\u2019s early Saturday morning, you just woke up, and are trying to check the news on your phone while enjoying a cup of coffee. You notice your phone isn\u2019t connected to the internet for some reason. You check the Starlink app for a system status, and it\u2019s offline. Attempts to create a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}