Tuesday 12/November/2024 – 01:17 PM
She declared Amazon company A security breach has exposed the email addresses, phone numbers and office locations associated with its employees, according to TechCrunch.
Company spokesman Adam Montgomery explained in an official statement that the company was informed of a security incident at one of its property management suppliers, which affected some customers, including Amazon.
Hodson Rock, a cybersecurity firm, reported that the information posted on a hacking forum includes data from Amazon and 25 other entities, including companies such as MetLife, HP, HSBC and Canada Post.
Hudson Rock stated that the leaked data dates back to May 2023 and is linked to a major security vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer system, the problem of which emerged last year, making Amazon among the list of affected organizations along with the BBC, British Airways, Sony, the US Department of Energy, and many other entities. The other.
Amazon hack
The company indicated that the person who published the information claimed that the leaked data was just a small part of the data in his possession.
Montgomery said: Amazon’s systems and cloud services, AWS, are secure, and we were not exposed to any security incident. The only data that was compromised was related to employees’ contact information, such as their email addresses, office phone numbers, and building locations.
It is not yet clear how many employees were affected by this hack, but a screenshot from the post on the hacking forum showed that the data set related to Amazon contains more than 2.8 million lines.
The company confirmed that the hack did not include employees’ Social Security numbers, government identity documents, or financial data.
Amazon had launched a new design for a white, fast-printing T-shirt, with pink words written on it: All thanks to the Israeli army soldiers, which expresses Amazon companies’ support for the Israeli occupation army forces during its harsh attacks on the people of Gaza in the Palestine war.
This shirt appeared under a banner with a price of 249 pounds, in the context of supporting the Israeli army forces, which sparked widespread controversy on social media platforms, and a post with an image of the shirt was circulated across users of social media accounts, opposing what was shared on the Amazon platform with words supportive of the occupation army, Coinciding with its severe attacks on Gaza and its continuous bombing, which led to the martyrdom of thousands of Palestinian families.
