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It's news from a few days ago: a third-party app used by many sellers Amazon UK, Of eBay it exposed approximately 8 million data points. 8 million Amazon and Ebay buyer data exposed and not only that, therefore. What happened is quite simple and at the same time worrying (perhaps not as worrying as the 600 thousand Email.it accounts violated). And it can help make us reflect on the importance of our data and of our online privacy.
Explained in simple words: This software provider, used by many resellers, has exposed 8 million data points to the public on the web. The database of all buyers was in fact open to everyone. Without a password And without any authentication request! In practice anyone could find the first name, surname, The shipping addresses, The acquisitions and the last four digits of the credit card of buyers.
8 million Amazon shopper data exposed
The security team discovered it Comparitech which, led by Bob Diachenko, discovered the server AWS (Amazon Web Services) with the offending database inside. Don't think that all this doesn't concern us just because it happened in the UK: only half of the data exposed It appears to come from the UK. The other half comes from all over Europe.
Google and Whatsapp
This lightness, so to speak, adds to another that we have seen recently. Indeed recently it turned out that Google had indexed the Whatsapp private chats and anyone could join the groups thanks to the exposure of the invitation links. In this case, it was a journalist who broke the news: Jordan Wildon, on Twitter.
In short, too often unfortunately the security And privacy are placed in last position. It's important in our opinion give voice to this news to raise public awareness as much as possible on such a delicate and important topic.
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