# My Amazon account is showing in Spanish. How do I change it back, and do you think I've been hacked?

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**Created:** [September 5, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazon-account-is-showing-in-spanish-how-do-i-change-it-back-and-do-you-think-ive-been-hacked/950131 "2021-09-05T12:45:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazon-account-is-showing-in-spanish-how-do-i-change-it-back-and-do-you-think-ive-been-hacked/950131/1 "2021-09-05T12:45:02Z")

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I went to Amazon to look at a streaming movie, and everything is showing in Spanish. How do I switch it back, and should I assume that someone hacked me?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazon-account-is-showing-in-spanish-how-do-i-change-it-back-and-do-you-think-ive-been-hacked/950131/2 "2021-09-05T12:53:26Z")

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You probably clicked a link to Amazon.com.es, or a link from a Spanish-speaking member whose own link text included a language preference, and it switched.

You can fix it [here](https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-preferences/select-language).

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazon-account-is-showing-in-spanish-how-do-i-change-it-back-and-do-you-think-ive-been-hacked/950131/3 "2021-09-05T13:13:27Z")

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My wife and I use the same Amazon account and it changes the language to our operating system’s laguage every time we log in all on its own: English in her case (tablet), German in mine (Windows computer). She manages the e-mail account for the amazon account, so she gets a notification “language has been changed” every time I access the Amazon account. I would not rule out having been hacked. Change the password, just in case. If this is not possible, you may have a problem.

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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-amazon-account-is-showing-in-spanish-how-do-i-change-it-back-and-do-you-think-ive-been-hacked/950131/4 "2021-09-05T13:13:43Z")

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I don’t remember how or the fix but this has happened to me before and I hope this is a little reassurance you were not hacked.