Administrative guidance to Amazon 110,000 personal information October 11 at 20:21 with the possibility of display to others
Last month, the personal information protection committee of the government ensured that Amazon was able to compile recurrence prevention measures and respond to inquiries from users due to the problem that personal information was incorrectly displayed on the Amazon website of a major online mail order Administrative guidance to do.
Last month at Amazon, a major online retailer, when a user logged in to the site, a trouble occurred in which the name, address, purchase history, etc. of another user was displayed. It is said that this is a malfunction of the system.
In this regard, the government's Personal Information Protection Committee says that the personal information of approximately 110,000 account users may have been displayed to other users, even though the trouble was recovered in one day.
Then, on the 11th, we instructed Amazon to organize the measures to prevent recurrence and to respond to inquiries from users because there was a problem with the handling of personal information.
In addition, the Personal Information Protection Committee, in response to this issue, will conduct sufficient operation tests and verify that the system is not vulnerable if the program is revised or upgraded for other site operators. A warning was issued to confirm.