{"id":23489,"date":"2018-11-26T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23489"},"modified":"2019-01-23T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T19:38:25","slug":"amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-e-mail-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-e-mail-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Admits It Exposed Customer E-mail Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/11\/21\/amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-email-addresses-doubles-down-on-secrecy\/\">Zack Whittaker and Josh Constine<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18503854\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/11\/21\/amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-email-addresses-doubles-down-on-secrecy\/\">\n<p>Amazon emailed users Tuesday, warning them that it exposed an unknown number of customer email addresses after a &ldquo;technical error&rdquo; on its website.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&rsquo;s vague and non-specific email also sparked criticism from users &mdash; including security experts &mdash; who accused the company of withholding information. Some said that the correspondence looked like a phishing email, used to trick customers into turning over account information.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, as a Washington-based company, is required to inform the state attorney general of data incidents involving 500 state residents or more. Yet, in Europe, where data protection rules are stronger &mdash; even in the wake of the recently introduced General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) &mdash; it&rsquo;s less clear if Amazon needs to disclose the incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack Whittaker and Josh Constine (via Hacker News): Amazon emailed users Tuesday, warning them that it exposed an unknown number of customer email addresses after a &ldquo;technical error&rdquo; on its website. [&#8230;] Amazon&rsquo;s vague and non-specific email also sparked criticism from users &mdash; including security experts &mdash; who accused the company of withholding information. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-26T19:00:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"f37582b6-6da4-48fb-a5aa-4c7a2dc69fa9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-23T19:38:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A83WCtm2kSPulqkx6LcafqQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,1755,1776,355,96],"class_list":["post-23489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-breach","tag-gdpr","tag-privacy","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23490,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23489\/revisions\/23490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}