Amazon Affiliate Data Leak: Web Bug Exposes Email Addresses

Just days after Amazon.com tightened its privacy policy, a bug in one of its Web pages exposed numerous email addresses of the site's Affiliate members. Dave English, who runs a software quality assurance company in New Hampshire, discovered the problem . . . Just days after Amazon.com tightened its privacy policy, a bug in one of its Web pages exposed numerous email addresses of the site's Affiliate members. Dave English, who runs a software quality assurance company in New Hampshire, discovered the problem while trying to update his company's links for the Amazon Affiliate program, which pays members a commission when they refer shoppers to Amazon's stores.

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