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Amazon.com informed customers that their names and e-mail addresses had been "inadvertently revealed" on its website a few days before the unofficial black Friday holiday kickoff.
In a statement released Wednesday, Amazon said: "We have corrected the problem and informed customers who may have been affected." The e-commerce giant did not specify how many people were affected or how their information was accessed.
Amazon customers in the United States and Europe who had received email notifications on Wednesday about the reported violation about social media notifications. The news of the Amazon data breach was reported for the first time by BetaNews.
@Amazon email missing details on #violation of data. "We are contacting you to inform you that our website inadvertently leaked your name and email address due to a technical error." The problem has been corrected. […]" pic.twitter.com/Z5QKnLDPdw
– Michael Ginsberg (@michaelginsberg) November 21, 2018
According to Amazon, neither its website nor its back-end systems have been compromised by this problem. In its customer notifications, the company stated that they did not need to change their passwords.
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