Amazon Has Emailed an Unspecified Number of Customers To Inform Them That Their Names and Addresses Were Disclosed by the Website, Blames 'Technical Error' (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @02:40AM from the ooops dept.

If you have received a strange email from Amazon today, you're not alone. A number of customers on Wednesday received an email from the company in which it notes that it "inadvertently disclosed your name and email address due to a technical error." The company confirmed to BetaNews that the emails are genuine, but did not discuss the nature and severity of the technical error and how many customers are impacted. The technical error impacted customers in the United States as well as United Kingdom. It remains unclear if customers elsewhere were affected too. In a statement, the company said, "We have fixed the issue and informed customers who may have been impacted."

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I got one by andyring · 2018-11-21 03:10 · Score: 4, Informative

I received one of those emails overnight as well.
In today's world, quite frankly you're a bumbling idiot if you haven't contacted all the credit bureaus to have your credit reports frozen. I did that for my wife and I shortly after the Equifax clusterfuck. And it really isn't a hassle either. My wife and I have needed access on a couple occasions and it's a simple matter to obtain a one-time PIN that the creditor can use, in our case a vehicle purchase and a home equity loan.
Yeah, the Amazon thing likely doesn't involve a credit report by any stretch of the imagination, but it's still a good idea to have your credit bureau reports frozen, which carries the force of law.