11-02-2020 , 07:58 AM
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/se...customers/ By
Ax Sharma
The company has sent out an email announcement to affected customers following the incident.
Affected Amazon customers confused
Over the weekend, reports emerged on Twitter of multiple Amazon customers perplexed by the email alerts being sent out by the company describing the data leak.
The key concern was if this was an isolated incident targeting the particular customer who had received the email or had other customers been affected too.
"Did anyone else get a weird email from Amazon about this data breach or was I just targeted solo?" tweeted entrepreneur Zain Jaffer. Email notifications being sent to some Amazon customers after the incident
Although the email notification pins blame for the incident on "an Amazon employee," a company statement shared by Motherboard implies multiple insiders could be to blame:
"The individuals responsible for this incident have been fired. We have referred the bad actors to law enforcement and are supporting their criminal prosecution," said an Amazon spokesperson.
The company did not answer how many customers were impacted.
Insider threats, not all of which may be malicious, continue to pose a risk to tech organizations.
Just last month, as reported by BleepingComputer, Shopify had suffered from a data breach impacting 200 merchants, because of some company team members going "rogue."
August this year, a Russian national tried to recruit a Tesla subsidiary employee in an extortion effort, "to convince him to deploy an unknown malware strain on the company’s computer network."
Ax Sharma
- October 27, 2020
- 04:33 AM
The company has sent out an email announcement to affected customers following the incident.
Affected Amazon customers confused
Over the weekend, reports emerged on Twitter of multiple Amazon customers perplexed by the email alerts being sent out by the company describing the data leak.
The key concern was if this was an isolated incident targeting the particular customer who had received the email or had other customers been affected too.
"Did anyone else get a weird email from Amazon about this data breach or was I just targeted solo?" tweeted entrepreneur Zain Jaffer. Email notifications being sent to some Amazon customers after the incident
Although the email notification pins blame for the incident on "an Amazon employee," a company statement shared by Motherboard implies multiple insiders could be to blame:
"The individuals responsible for this incident have been fired. We have referred the bad actors to law enforcement and are supporting their criminal prosecution," said an Amazon spokesperson.
The company did not answer how many customers were impacted.
Insider threats, not all of which may be malicious, continue to pose a risk to tech organizations.
Just last month, as reported by BleepingComputer, Shopify had suffered from a data breach impacting 200 merchants, because of some company team members going "rogue."
August this year, a Russian national tried to recruit a Tesla subsidiary employee in an extortion effort, "to convince him to deploy an unknown malware strain on the company’s computer network."