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Amazon has not suffered a data breach.Computer security firm F-Secure said Thursday morning that it has seen email spam telling users to verify their Amazon accounts following an alleged data breach. The alleged breach, which did not happen, was said to have resulted in the "data theft" of 2,592 Amazon accounts.
F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen told Motherboard that the security firm saw similar email spam in September, and that the spam appears to be "UK-centric."Phishing attacks like this, in which hackers attempt to trick users into handing over their usernames and passwords, are relatively common. Kaspersky Labs, another computer security firm, noted in May that its anti-phishing software was triggered more than 50 million times in the first half of 2015, an increase of more than one million times compared to the same period the year before.Amazon did not immediately respond to request for comment.No, Amazon has not suffered a data breach. If you get an email like the one below, delete it. It's phishing. pic.twitter.com/VVaSWmSEHm
— Mikko Hypponen (@mikko) November 12, 2015