Along with receiving his own audio history captured by a home microphone, the user also gained access to 1,700 audio files from a person he did not know. “This was an unfortunate case of human error and an isolated incident,” Amazon told The Washington Post in a statement Thursday. The first man notified Amazon of the improperly shared recordings, according to the report. But the violation of privacy had already transpired: After Amazon had sent the user the link, he downloaded the audio recordings of the stranger to his computer. Amazon said the company apologized to the person who received the audio files and to the person whose conversations were accidentally shared.

Source: Washington Post December 20, 2018 15:11 UTC