Amazon discloses names and addresses -- but doesn't disclose details

guest · Nov 21, 2018

Amazon discloses names and addresses -- but doesn't disclose details
November 21, 2018
https://betanews.com/2018/11/21/amazon-discloses-names-and-addreses/

If you're an Amazon customer you may have received a rather strange email this morning. It states that the company has, "...inadvertently disclosed your name and email address due to a technical error."

It then goes on to say, "The issue has been fixed. This is not a result of anything you have done, and there is no need for you to change your password or take any other action."
None of which is terribly reassuring. Although it doesn't include the customer's name it doesn't look like a phishing attack as there is no link and no call to action.

Puzzled customers have been posting on Amazon's forums about the messages but, as yet, there is no official statement from the company about what has happened and how many people have been affected.
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UPDATE: In response to our request for a statement Amazon's PR department said, "We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted."
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Minimalist · Nov 27, 2018

Catching Configuration Changes that Can Lead to Data Exposure

When I’ve sat in on such meetings in the past, a lot of the conversations for these issues stem not from an outsider threat but from a risk much closer to home – a simple misconfiguration. Whether it was an inadvertent firewall rule or a single typo leaving an access setting left open, human error still remains one of the top risks to an IT organisation’s security.
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https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-s...catching-configuration-changes-data-exposure/

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