Amazon's breakthrough leads to revealing customer details

Amazon's breakthrough leads to revealing customer details

Amazon.com suffered a breach of information, with customer details such as names and e-mail addresses of a group of users being revealed most of the year prior to Friday's black Friday events. Amazon said it had told customers likely to have been affected by the disclosure, "We are contacting you to let you know that our website has declared the purpose of your name and email address as a result of an incorrect technical

It is not the result of anything you have done, there is no need to turn your password or take any other action, Amazon addresses all security-related issues seriously, and the security of your account is our most important priority, and we have security policies and measures To ensure that your personal information is secure

The e-commerce giant declined to give any further details as to how many users might have been affected, regardless of whether it believed the e-mail was sent to customers worldwide, and also members of the Amazon Vine review program

The ICO, the UK's information regulator, which Amazon is required to report in the event of any breach as part of the GDPR legislation, said it was completing the situation closely

Richard Walters, chief technical officer at CensorNet, said that those affected should ignore Amazon's guidelines and convert their passwords. "If the reports are correct, the leaked data, including names and e-mail addresses, , The minimum necessity of some of those other violations, which have seen the leak details of credit cards

E-security specialists note that despite the restrictive nature of information leakage, this does not mitigate the need for breach. Cybercriminals can do a lot of damage in the presence of a huge database of names and e-mail addresses. A large majority of individuals still use vocabulary A predictable passage, and thanks to the recent breakthrough, many of the people's vocabulary are available on the dark web