Amazon Is Offering Gift Cards to Customers Affected in Email Data Leak

Last week,Amazonannounced that it inadvertentlyrevealeduser data due to a ‘technical error’. Now, the e-commerce is reportedly offering gift cards to the users affected by incident, even though it is yet to explain how the leak took place.

Tom Guideyesterday reported that it managed to talk to users who were offered Amazon gift cards of between $5 and $100 as an apology. In addition to that, some Redditors also confirmed that they were offered money in the form of gift cards by Amazon.

According to Tom’s Guide,“doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason to who and who is not receiving gift cards.”The company seems to be offering gift cards to users at random. So, if you happen to spend sometime conversing to Amazon’s customer service, you may end up ending the chat with a gift card to spend.

Amazon user Paul Gagnon, who spoke to Tom’s Guide, said,“after calling Amazon customer service to ask them how my information was disclosed to, and after asking to be bumped up to a supervisor, I was offered $100 as an apology.

I made Amazon give me $10 for the recent security breach…fromr/amazon

From what I can understand, the Amazon customer service reps are offering these cards only to avoid the escalation of the issue by the customers. This is a common practice, and even I’ve been offered gift cards as an apology for things like delayed order delivery, misplaced items, etc.

This is, of course, not just a delayed order, and the fact that Amazon has refused to say more about how the data was leaked and who saw the leaked information, makes these coupons seem like hush money.

But I’d like to know your thoughts on this. Have you ever been offered a gift card as apology for any order related issues with Amazon? Let us know by dropping a comment down below.

Karthik Iyer

Karthik is a Contributing Author for Beebom. Be it mobile devices, laptops, etc. he brings his passion for technology wherever he goes. When he’s not dwelling on the latest tech, you can usually find Karthik wasting time on Instagram or feeding his incessant obsession for video games.

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