{"id":866077,"date":"2024-10-15T08:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=866077"},"modified":"2024-10-15T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:36:28","slug":"consumer-court-directs-amazon-to-pay-rs-40k-refund-over-hacked-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/15\/consumer-court-directs-amazon-to-pay-rs-40k-refund-over-hacked-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer court directs Amazon to pay Rs 40k refund over hacked smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Amazon Retail India to refund Rs 40,325 to a woman after it was discovered that the smartphone she purchased was compromised, leading to data exposure and unauthorised transactions, according to a report by The Times of India. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the refund, Amazon has been penalised Rs 18,000 &#8211; Rs 10,000 as compensation for mental distress and harassment, and Rs 8,000 to cover legal expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Amazon Retail India to refund Rs 40,325 to a woman after it was discovered that the smartphone she purchased was compromised, leading to data exposure and unauthorised transactions, according to a report by The Times of India. In addition to the refund, Amazon has been penalised Rs 18,000 &#8211; Rs 10,000 as compensation for mental distress and harassment, and Rs 8,000 to cover legal expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}