Amazon Alexa Recorded Private Conversation - Sent It to Random Contact

According to Fox13 News (May 24, 2018) Amazon Alexa recorded private conversation and sent it to a random contact. - A Portland, Oregon, family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa – the voice-controlled smart speaker – and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list. "A husband and wife in the privacy of their home have conversations that they're not expecting to be sent to someone (in) their address book."

"Amazon said, 'Our engineers went through your logs, and they saw exactly what you told us; they saw exactly what you said happened, and we're sorry.' He apologized like 15 times in a matter of 30 minutes, and he said, 'We really appreciate you bringing this to our attention; this is something we need to fix!'"