From TechCrunch: Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor.
In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed that employee information had been involved in a data breach.
“Amazon and AWS systems remain secure, and we have not experienced a security event. We were notified about a security event at one of our property management vendors that impacted several of its customers including Amazon. The only Amazon information involved was employee work contact information, for example work email addresses, desk phone numbers, and building locations,” Montgomery said.
Amazon declined to say how many employees were impacted by the breach. It noted that the unnamed third-party vendor doesn’t have access to sensitive data such as Social Security numbers or financial information and said the vendor had fixed the security vulnerability responsible for the data breach.
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