Amazon fined $2.25M for withholding evidence from fraud victims
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Amazon will pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to settle charges that it blocked identity theft victims' access to transaction records. [...]
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Amazon will pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to settle charges that it blocked identity theft victims' access to transaction records. [...]
Password Manager Must Pay 1.2M PoundsThe British data regulator imposed a fine of 1.2 million pounds against password manager LastPass over a 2022 data breach that exposed the data of millions of its customers. Unidentified hackers stole backup data from LastPass's Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.
The French CNIL has fined Amazon France Logistique $35m for an "excessively intrusive" surveillance system set up to monitor the performance of its staff
E-Commerce Giant Accuses Luxembourg Regulators of Attacking the CompanyAmazon in a Luxembourg court Tuesday contested a once-record privacy fine levied against the e-commerce giant for its advertising practices by the diminutive country's data protection authority. The fine of 746 million euros stems from a 2018 complaint by French privacy group La Quadrature du Net.
Also: Amazon Sues Alleged Refund Gang, Ukraine Says It Hacked Russian Tax SystemThis week, French police arrested an alleged Hive "banker," Amazon cracked down on a refund fraud ring, Ukraine military intelligence said it hacked the Russian tax system, the U.K. Ministry of Defense was fined and Kraft Heinz said it is doing fine after an alleged ransomware attack.
ALSO: Amazon's child-sized COPPA fine, smart tech security labels coming to the US, and this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief A security weakness in Google Cloud Build could have allowed attackers to tamper with organizations' code repositories and application images, according to Orca Security researchers.…
The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million fine to settle alleged children's privacy laws violations related to the company's Alexa voice assistant service. [...]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Amazon a cumulative $30.8 million over a series of privacy lapses regarding its Alexa assistant and Ring security cameras
Amazon will pay $30 million in fines to settle allegations of privacy violations related to the operation of its Ring video doorbell and Alexa virtual assistant services. [...]
Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million (about $5.4 million) by the French data protection watchdog for breaking cookie consent rules, making it the latest platform to face similar penalties after Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft since 2020