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December 20, 2018 04:11 pm GMT

Amazon sent over 1,000 audio recordings of an Alexa user to the wrong person

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One user emailed Amazon asking for all the personal data the company had stored on him. In return, this user received an email link from the ecommerce giant with more than one thousand Alexa recordings made by a completely different customer.

According to the German publication c’t, as reported by Reuters, the user who made the request for his data received an email from Amazon with a link to a 100MB zip file containing 1,700 audio files recorded by the company’s voice assistant, Alexa. 

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