As per some reports, Nvidia’s official website accidentally leaked its customer email addresses to people visiting the order status page. On Friday, a Reddit user came up with the proof of screenshot, which showed a random person’s email popping up on the order page of Nvidia’s website.
A quick Google search revealed that the leaked email address belonged to a computer science student in Florida. The incident also affected software engineer Phil Bayfield, who says a random person ended up learning his email address because of leakage on Nvidia’s official website.
@nvidia Also leaked my business email and I was contacted by someone who got my email from the NVIDIA store. I'll be reporting this to the relevent authorities. However, I'll be willing to accept a Founders Edition 3080 or 3090 card as suitable compensation. https://t.co/bNV2OOlczv
— Phil Bayfield (@bayf) September 25, 2020
For the evidence, Phil Bayfield posted an email exchange between him and the random person, first reported by TechTeamGB. It revealed that the same stranger sent the email on Monday, hoping Bayfield had acquired Nvidia’s newly-launched RTX 3080 card intending to buy it from him.
“Can I have your 3080 card?” the stranger asked.
“No, I don’t have a 3080,” Bayfield replied.
The stranger then explained Bayfield how his email was exposed. “…somehow Nvidia’s website is leaking email addresses. It had your email auto-filled in the order status page of Nvidia’s website. Weird,” the person replied.
To confirm the @VideoCardz story (https://t.co/RusGKSc48s) A viewer in my discord @bayf had his email leaked and had someone email him asking for his 3080. The emailer then looked up that email to find what company he worked for… pic.twitter.com/YDkPlQsoSp
— TechteamGB (@TechTeamGB) September 25, 2020
Bayfield said,
“Honestly I thought it was someone pranking me” before realizing the leak was real. He signed up for Nvidia’s website about a week ago in the hope to get the RTX 3080. But he ended up with Nvidia’s website exposing some of his personal information. He didn’t seem to be very impressed that they leaked his email information (even though it’s not exactly a secret).”
In response to this Nvidia, officials explained they were investigating the issue and will provide further information once it is available. At the same time, the company also announced the order status webpage was down for maintenance purposes.Feature
Image Source – Nvidia
