Amazon may be especially tight-lipped about this breach because of its timing, just ahead of the unofficial launch of the holiday shopping season.
The news is nevertheless likely to affect sales, especially in light of escalating competition online from Target, Walmart and Best Buy, according to Carl Wright, chief commercial officer of cybersecurity platform AttackIQ.
Amazon is as much a tech business as a retail one, and stories about data insecurity are rare for the company — which also runs AWS, the cloud service that runs much of the internet. Still, it’s apparently not immune.
