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Counterpoint: I haven't got one, despite using both the UK and US Amazon website regularly. So it remains to be seen what happened, and if Amazon is to blame.
by guitarbill 8y ago
Counterpoint: I haven't got one, despite using both the UK and US Amazon website regularly. So it remains to be seen what happened, and if Amazon is to blame.
Edit: Asked around, so far, none of my friends and family who use the UK site exclusively have gotten an email.
Could also be phishing gone wrong? Because what better time to do it than close to Black Friday?
- caymanjim 8y agoIt looks like it has something to do with being a _seller_ on Amazon. Had the email been sent by someone with a clue, it would have been explicit. Instead everyone is just speculating (including me).
- guitarbill 8y agoI didn't get that from the thread title ("user's e-mails") or the Register article [0] which says: > Amazon's UK press office acknowledged that the email was genuine, saying only: "We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted." and > [...] this is not a breach in the sense of a hack while maintaining that the snafu is an inadvertent technical error and that they emailed customers from an abundance of caution. Looks like they've ballsed up the incidence response quite badly, and seems to be Amazon's fault. [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/21/amazon_data_breach/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/21/amazon_data_breach/