Amazon has drawn criticism after sending an email to some users in the UK, US and Europe on 20 November alerting them their customer email address had been exposed, but failing to provide any further information. A technical error on the Amazon website led to the security lapse, the company said, but declined to reveal which sites were affected, who the email addresses may have been exposed to, or the approximate scale of the breach. The UK government is investigating whether there was a breach at Amazon.
Amazon has drawn criticism after sending an email to some users in the UK, US and Europe on 20 November alerting them their customer email address had been exposed, but failing to provide any further information. A technical error on the Amazon website led to the security lapse, the company said, but declined to reveal which sites were affected, who the email addresses may have been exposed to, or the approximate scale of the breach. However, it did confirm the problem had been fixed.