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Amazon agreed to pay $2.25 million in civil penalties to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission case over identity‑theft victims. The FTC said the retailer violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by refusing to provide transaction records to those victims and, in some instances, to law‑enforcement agencies. The settlement resolves the regulator’s claim that Amazon failed to meet the Act’s requirements. No further details were provided by Amazon at the time of the announcement.

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