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Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home

Posted on December 20, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Reuters reports:

A user of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of “a human error” by the company. 


The customer had asked to listen back to recordings of his own activities made by Alexa but he was also able to access 1,700 audio files from a stranger when Amazon sent him a link, German trade publication c’t reported.

Read more on Reuters.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

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