Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 33 seconds

Dems Call for Amazon Probe Over Capital One Hack

Two U.S. lawmakers have urged the Federal Trade Commission to look into this summer’s Capital One data breach, which involved the records of more than 100 million people. So reports GeekWire.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), one of the leading candidates for her party’s presidential nomination, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), wrote a letter to the FTC (PDF) saying that it should determine whether Amazon’s “failure to secure its services” broke federal law against unfair business practices. According to the letter, Amazon was aware of the security lapse that facilitated the breach, which led to the July arrest of a Seattle software engineer.

Read the full article from GeekWire.

Read 4442 times
Rate this item
(0 votes)

Visit other PMG Sites:

PMG360 is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal data we collect from our subscribers/agents/customers/exhibitors and sponsors. On May 25th, the European's GDPR policy will be enforced. Nothing is changing about your current settings or how your information is processed, however, we have made a few changes. We have updated our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect, how and why we collect it.