Amazon UK is notifying a data breach to its customers days before Black Friday

Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from the Amazon UK branch that is notifying them an accidental data leak.

The news is disconcerting, Amazon has suffered a data breach a few days before Black Friday

Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from the Amazon UK branch that is notifying them an accidental data leak.

Amazon informed its customers that it had “inadvertently disclosed [their] name and email address due to a technical error”.

The messages include an HTTP link to the company website and read:

“Hello,

We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your name and email address due to a technical error. 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.

Sincerely, Customer Service”

The Register confirmed that the email is genuine and that was sent by Amazon UK, the press office acknowledged its authenticity.

“We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted.” states the press office.

At the time of writing, it is unclear the number of affected customers, whether Amazon had informed the Information Commissioner’s Office.

The company did not disclose technical details of the incident, it is not known the root cause of the incident.

The Register pointed out that not only UK customers are receiving a data breach notification from the Amazon, but people from the US, the Netherlands and South Korea also claim to have received the same message.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Amazon UK, hacking)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.