said Amazon had failed to protect its customers from a known security issue in its cloud-computing system, where Capital One Financial Corp. stored the information. The FTC is already investigating some of the big tech companies, including Amazon, over practices that may be judged anticompetitive. Since the hack was first disclosed in July, security experts have debated how much responsibility Amazon bears for the incident. Mr. Piper urged Amazon to make technical changes to mitigate this attack, according to a copy of the email viewed by the Journal. In the letter to Sen. Wyden, Amazon said it was helping customers deal with the kind of misconfiguration problem that affected Capital One.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 24, 2019 10:02 UTC