{"id":1029453,"date":"2021-11-18T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029453"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:14:55","slug":"wired-amazon-lost-control-of-customers-data-employees-had-free-for-all-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wired-amazon-lost-control-of-customers-data-employees-had-free-for-all-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired: Amazon Lost Control of Customers&#039; Data, Employees Had &#039;Free-For-All&#039; Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwired-amazon-lost-control-of-customers-data-employees-had-free-for-all-access%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029453&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">In a recent article, <em>Wired<\/em> magazine outlines how Amazon has lost control of its vast collection of user data and failed to protect its customers\u2019 personal information from \u201cinternal threat actors,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wired<\/em> magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/amazon-failed-to-protect-your-data-investigation\/\">reports<\/a> in an article titled \u201cAmazon\u2019s Dark Secret \u2014 It Has Failed to Protect Your Data,\u201d that e-commerce giant Amazon has failed to adequately track and store its vast collection of user data, leaving its customers vulnerable to attack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_13410992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jeff-bezos-mural.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13410992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jeff-bezos-mural.jpg\" alt=\"Mural of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mural of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (Thierry Ehrmann\/Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Wired<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p>In the name of speedy customer service, unbridled growth, and rapid-fire \u201cinvention on behalf of customers\u201d\u2014in the name of delighting <em>you<\/em>\u2014Amazon had given broad swathes of its global workforce extraordinary latitude to tap into customer data at will. It was, as former Amazon chief information security officer Gary Gagnon calls it, a \u201cfree-for-all\u201d of internal access to customer information. And as information security leaders warned, that free-for-all left the company wide open to \u201cinternal threat actors\u201d while simultaneously making it inordinately difficult to track where all of Amazon\u2019s data was flowing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrew DeVore, a former prosecutor and Amazon representative, testified before Congress about the company\u2019s dedication to its customers and their data safety. But <em>Wired<\/em> notes that while DeVore was testifying about Amazon\u2019s commitment to customer safety, major data breaches were taking place:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p>By the time DeVore started testifying about Amazon\u2019s long-standing commitment to privacy and security, the dangers that the security division had identified weren\u2019t just theoretical. According to Reveal and WIRED\u2019s findings, they were real, and they were pervasive. Across Amazon, some low-level employees were using their data privileges to snoop on the purchases of celebrities, while others were taking bribes to help shady sellers sabotage competitors\u2019 businesses, doctor Amazon\u2019s review system, and sell knock-off products to unsuspecting customers. Millions of credit card numbers had sat in the wrong place on Amazon\u2019s internal network for years, with the security team unable to establish definitively whether they\u2019d been unduly accessed. And a program that allowed sellers to extract their own metrics had become a backdoor for third-party developers to amass Amazon customer data. In fact, not long before September\u2019s hearing, Amazon had discovered that a Chinese data firm had been harvesting millions of customers\u2019 information in a scheme reminiscent of Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon had thieves in its house and sensitive data streaming out beyond its walls. But DeVore\u2014who had himself received a report that year warning that far too many Amazonians had access to insecurely stored passwords, and who had aggressively shot down a company lawyer for questioning Amazon\u2019s reputation on customer privacy\u2014didn\u2019t reveal any of that to the senators.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/amazon-failed-to-protect-your-data-investigation\/\"><em>Wired<\/em> magazine here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. 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