Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home

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Source: Reuters

DECEMBER 20, 2018 / 5:32 AM / UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A user of Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of “a human error” by the company.

The customer had asked to listen back to recordings of his own activities made by Alexa but he was also able to access 1,700 audio files from a stranger when Amazon sent him a link, German trade publication c’t reported.

“This unfortunate case was the result of a human error and an isolated single case,” an Amazon spokesman said on Thursday.

The first customer had initially got no reply when he told Amazon about the access to the other recordings, the report said. The files were then deleted from the link provided by Amazon but he had already downloaded them on to his computer, added the report from c’t, part of German tech publisher Heise.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-data-security/amazon-error-allowed-alexa-user-to-eavesdrop-on-another-home-idUSKCN1OJ15J

[HopeAgain]

1. Not in my house

Nothing interesting to hear, but nonetheless I don't rust it.

[paleotn]

2. In other news, Skynet attempts to nuke itself

until someone kicked the plug out of the wall.

[blugbox]

3. If it can accidentally do that

It can be maliciously hacked to do that.

[FM123]

4. wow, over a thousand audio files from a stranger....