H2O Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 As pointed out in our spam discussion forum (here) Amazon has a programming slip-up that allows any email address to be viewable, by any anonymous user, just by entering www.amazon.com/seller/nickname where "nickname" is a registered amazon users nick. Try yours, for example. Or "Jeffbezos". To see the email, click on "view new seller profile page" and look carefully in the grey area at the bottom. This leak seems totally unrelated to any privacy settings you may have on your Amazon account. Spammers with screen-scraping tools will take advantage of this within a heartbeat. Unhappy with a book review? feel free to flame the reviewer directly. It is disappointing that Amazon has not heeded complaints by more than one customer over this breach. Too busy handling the Xmas rush, perhaps? News can be found here: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/36680 The above snippet is from broadbandreports.com and as of time of posting this message I tried the URL on several different nicknames and sure enough I was able to access that person's data [e.g email address] Quite scary!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 eh, Amazon is overpriced anyways Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special_K Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 (edited) yea honestly i hate that place! <_< i figure if you need to buy a book go to barnes and noble. if they dont have it there, ebay lol. Edited December 24, 2003 by Special_K Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted December 24, 2003 Posted December 24, 2003 Actually I purchased some of my network hardware at Amazon for cheaper than at Newegg and that was including shipping! Never know where the good deals might come from! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Posted December 25, 2003 Posted December 25, 2003 With all of the problems I've heard Amazon has had in the past, I' rather stick with NewEgg or independent retailers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme21 Posted December 25, 2003 Posted December 25, 2003 Yah im not surprised, but that dies kinda suck... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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