Senators Warren and Wyden urge FTC to investigate Amazon's role in Capital One hack

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U.S. Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren are now urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Amazon's failure to secure the servers it rented to Capital One violated federal law.

"Amazon's failure to add a similar software protections SSRF attacks to its AWS cloud computing product has been the subject of significant public discussion among cybersecurity experts for the past five years, including in presentations at major industry conferences," the Senators write.after the hack was revealed and she has been charged with alleged computer fraud and "abuse for an intrusion on the stored data.

"AWS was not compromised in any way and functioned as designed," Amazon said in a statement to CNBC in July. "The perpetrator gained access through a misconfiguration of the web application and not the underlying cloud-based infrastructure. ... This type of vulnerability is not specific to the cloud."of big tech companies have become a hallmark of her presidential campaign.

 

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