Security News > 2020 > October > Amazon Fires Employee Who Leaked Customer Names, Emails

Amazon has fired an employee who shared customers' names and email addresses with a third party.

Amazon did not comment on an inquiry from Threatpost asking how many customers were impacted, and what the role of the Amazon employee was.

"Though the extent of the leak is currently unknown, a number of Amazon customers have been notified that their email addresses have been passed on to a third-party by an employee, which has resulted in their termination. Organizations must be armed with the tools to prevent threats from within their walls from launching attacks."

Last year, Trend Micro said that a rogue employee sold the data of 68,000 customers to a malicious third party, who then used that data to target customers with scam calls.

A report in 2018 found that Facebook had fired an employee who allegedly abused access privileges to data to stalk women.

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https://threatpost.com/amazon-fires-employee-customer-data/160610/