Leaked Amazon Prime Video Server Exposed Users Viewing Habits

Anurag Sen, a cyber-security researcher, discovered the database containing Amazon Prime viewing habits on an internal Amazon server that was accessible online. According to TechCrunch, the database was first detected as being exposed to the internet on September 30 by the search engine Shodan.

“But because the database was not protected with a password, the data within could be accessed by anyone with a web browser just by knowing its IP address,” the report noted.

The database contained nearly 215 million viewing data entries, such as the name of the show or movie being streamed, the device on which it was streamed, and other internal data. The Amazon Prime Video database was eventually taken down from the Internet. According to an Amazon spokesperson, there was a “deployment error with a Prime Video analytics server.”

“This problem has been resolved and no account information (including login or payment details) was exposed. This was not an AWS issue; AWS is secure by default and performed as designed,” the spokesperson added.

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