Amazon possibly breached?

[Skiiwee29]

Something to keep an eye on over the next few days/weeks.... I just got an email from Amazon saying my email address was inadvertently exposed by a technical error... Im still going to change my Amazon password just to be safe and I already have 2FA enabled. Anyone else getting these emails? Have to assume others will be or have already...

 

 

UPDATE: Here is an article of it hitting Main stream media on yahoo: https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/21/amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-email-addresses-doubles-down-on-secrecy/?yptr=yahoo

[Syntaxvgm]

hi 

just wanted to let you know everything is fine. There was a problem and it's fine. Do nothing about it. 

Don't even change your password. 

Don't even know why we're letting you know. 

[Screaming Doggo]

17 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Something to keep an eye on over the next few days/weeks.... I just got an email from Amazon saying my email address was inadvertently exposed by a technical error... Im still going to change my Amazon password just to be safe and I already have 2FA enabled. Anyone else getting these emails? Have to assume others will be or have already...

 

Mate. 
For such occasions, its better to change your password.
And why do I think that email is not even from amazon. Instead of telling you to change your password to be on the safer side, they are telling you to not change it and be happy. Its really suspicious to see a online shopping site to not tell you to change your password and just forget it. 
In such cases, just change your password. It will be better.

[corrado33]

Looks like a scam to me. 

[Andreas Lilja]

Looks fishy.

 

"Hello" + the URL, uppercase A, no www, not https.

[Skiiwee29]

20 minutes ago, Raskolnikov said:

Looks fishy.

 

"Hello" + the URL, uppercase A, no www, not https.

 

20 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Looks like a scam to me. 

its not a scam, its legit. I also have the message in my Amazon messages on my amazon account, so its 100% legit. 

[corrado33]

1 minute ago, Skiiwee29 said:

 

its not a scam, its legit. 

Go to amazon.com. Contact them via their own website, ask them about the e-mail. 

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Go to amazon.com. Contact them via their own website, ask them about the e-mail. 

its legit.. I edited my post you quoted.. here is a screenshot from the amazon website in my messages inbox.. its 1000000% a legit email. Not a scam

 

 

[Canada EH]

51 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Amazon

Could very well be a spammed email looking like Amazon. I got 4 calls within 4 minutes from all spammed #'s and some asian language female spouts off whatever, calls were diff #'s but one was a daycare in Surrey.

[corrado33]

7 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

its legit.. I edited my post you quoted.. here is a screenshot from the amazon website in my messages inbox.. its 1000000% a legit email. Not a scam

 

 

 

I'd still contact amazon via their support pages and ask about it. 

[Skiiwee29]

3 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Could very well be a spammed email looking like Amazon. I got 4 calls within 4 minutes from all spammed #'s and some asian language female spouts off whatever, calls were diff #'s but one was a daycare in Surrey.

Its not spam.. the email also shows up in my message center on my amazon account.. please see the picture posted int he post above yours. 

[Skiiwee29]

And also for the record, this is NOT a thread asking if this is fake, or a scam blah blah blah.. I know 100000% its not. Its more to warn people to look for suspicious activities on there accounts and to login and check there message center within Amazon itself and see if its there and to update there account password. I also suspect to see more main stream coverage of this over the coming days/weeks potentially to get a better understand of the impact and what happened and why/how. 

[Canada EH]

Mainstream coverage, perhapos but I kinda doubt it because what makes those kind of headlines are specific #'s in accounts breached and data stolen. It'd still be interesting to see what comes of the news coverage.

[Speed Weed]

I got one as well. 

[aisle9]

Is it sad that despite having three different credit cards saved in there, I'm more worried about people finding out about that time I was trolled into searching for "Taken By the T-Rex"?

[1re]

1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

Is it sad that despite having three different credit cards saved in there, I'm more worried about people finding out about that time I was trolled into searching for "Taken By the T-Rex"?

definitely not

[Screaming Doggo]

4 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

its legit.. I edited my post you quoted.. here is a screenshot from the amazon website in my messages inbox.. its 1000000% a legit email. Not a scam

 

 

So it might be that there is a possibility of amazon and its customer's data being breached. 
Thank god I never save my credit card details on amazon 

[kuhnertdm]

9 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

hi 

just wanted to let you know everything is fine. There was a problem and it's fine. Do nothing about it. 

Don't even change your password. 

Don't even know why we're letting you know. 

They're often legally required to inform users.

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Im still going to change my Amazon password just to be safe

what if the password change page is infected and you just gave them the password...

[Skiiwee29]

2 hours ago, whiskerslaboratory said:

Can you reach out to Amazon, at least for the guys here, for them to confirm something happened? Because the e-mail looks totally fishy, that http from Amazon, come on...

Read further into the thread... I posted a screenshot of the message in my message center on my amazon.com account. Its not fishy, its 1000000% legit. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Looks like it's making its rounds on the tech news outlets, but the company hasn't said anything specific to said news outlets when asked what was up. It may or may not be related to the data leak from an employee that was fired recently.

[TechyBen]

<- Just remembered he uses his personal email in Amazon by mistake, not his store account.... GAH! Thanks Az...

[Skiiwee29]

3 hours ago, whiskerslaboratory said:

Exactly, the fact that it's in your amazon's message center is really not the most solid proof it's, as you say, 1000000% legit, and if you think this e-mail sounds not fishy, that has an HTTP header from one of the main internet giants then you're seriously naive.

.... this makes no sense.. IF ITS IN MY ACTUAL AMAZON ACCOUNT MESSAGE CENTER.. it means its FROM AMAZON.. not a phishing scam.... Part of my job when I was in the military was to train my company on phishing scams, social engineering etc.. so I am well versed in what to look for and how to spot fake emails and scams. Yes I know no one or nothing is perfect, but you are looking at one aspect of the larger picture and focusing on that.. you sir, are the naive one, not I.