Category: Industry News

Thousands of FedEx customers were exposed after the company left scanned passports, drivers licenses, and other documentation on a publicly accessible Amazon S3 server.

The scanned IDs originated from countries all over the world, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, and several European countries. The IDs were attached to forms that included several pieces of personal information, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, and zip codes.

The server, discovered by researchers at the Kromtech Security Center, was secured as of Tuesday.

Amazon.com Inc. is expanding a service launched to make more groceries, cleaning supplies and other products available for quick delivery directly from merchants without overwhelming the e-commerce giant’s warehouses with additional inventory, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg.

The trial pushes Amazon’s logistical reach beyond its own facilities and into those of its merchants, encroaching on services of long-time delivery partners United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. Amazon is enticing the sellers who use the company’s online marketplace with lower delivery costs, logistics software, warehouse inspections and recommendations.

Truck drivers and delivery workers had the highest number of workplace fatalities in 2016, more than any other occupation, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report, released in December, found that 918 truck drivers and driver sales workers died on the job.

There were 5,190 fatal work injuries across all occupations and industries in 2016, a 7 percent increase from the year before and the highest number since 2008. The number of fatal injuries among truck drivers far exceeds the 260 fatalities for farmers and agricultural managers, the occupation with the next-highest number of fatal workplace injuries.