Ring isn’t the only place where Amazon employees have been fired for accessing user data. Amazon itself also fired several employees this week “after they leaked private customer data to an undisclosed third-party,” reports Gizmodo.
They note that Amazon also fired more data-leaking employees at the end of 2018.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the news with multiple outlets after several customers received notifications from the company warning that their e-mail addresses and phone numbers had been leaked “to a third-party in violation of our policies,” per a screenshot shared by TechCrunch. The email goes on to say that the Amazon employee — singular — responsible has since been identified and fired. However, a later company statement appears to imply there were multiple Amazon defectors behind the leak:
“The individuals responsible for this incident have been terminated and we are supporting law enforcement in their prosecution,” an Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo via email…. It all makes for an embarrassing start to the new year given Amazon’s myriad customer data breaches that wrapped up 2019.
In one case, the Wall Street Journal found evidence of several Amazon employees hawking customer data to sellers in exchange for bribes.
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