Third-party price comparison tools lead to account theft? JD.com urgently sends text messages to notify users to change their passwords

According to news from this site on June 22, Blue Dot reported that many users received text messages from JD.com this afternoon (June 22), warning users not to use any third-party price comparison tools or plug-ins, and suggesting changing their passwords. Otherwise, accounts suspected of being used maliciously will continue to be restricted.

Although JD.com emphasized in the text message that it "monitored that user accounts may be used maliciously," a large number of netizens also believed that JD.com was deliberately restricting users from using third-party price comparison tools or plug-ins.

Of course, there are currently many price comparison tools, extensions and even scripts on e-commerce websites for embedded price comparison. JD.com’s operation will affect many users.

As far as this site knows, there are currently a large number of JD proxy tools and scripts that can obtain user account cookies for operations, which may lead to user information being stolen, or being remotely controlled to engage in illegal activities.

In addition, some price comparison tools or plug-ins will secretly insert promotional codes into e-commerce addresses, which requires the platform to pay commissions to the price comparison tools, thus causing losses to JD.com.

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