Just two days before Black Friday launched, Amazon has suffered a major data breach, which caused customer names and email addresses to be disclosed on its website. Amazon has emailed the customers affected, but has refused to say how many customers were affected. Amazon say this is not a breach of the website’s security or any of its systems, but a technical issue, that led to customers names and email addresses being posted.
Amazon said: “We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted.”
Customers who received an email were told: “Our website inadvertently disclosed … Read more