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 A former housekeeper of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe working conditions that included being forced to climb out a laundry room window to get to a bathroom anytime the Bezos family was home.

In a lawsuit filed in a Seattle court this week, Mercedes Wedaa claims she was discriminated and retaliated against when she complained about a lack of rest breaks or an area where staff could eat.

Wedaa contends in the lawsuit that she sometimes worked up to 14 hours a day but was never told she was entitled to rest breaks. She also says there was no room designated for the housekeepers to rest in and that they sometimes ate meals in a laundry room.

Albanese says cyber-security is only going to become more important in the coming years, but suggested there were things private companies and even individuals could do to help.

"It is also up to companies to heed the wake-up call that some have received in recent times about the targeting of people's data, about the need to keep that data secure, just as individuals can be targeted as well," he said.

"There is a whole range of things that you can do. Turning off your phone, for example. Every day. For a period of time. It helps make your device that you have your data on more secure.

"There are simple things you can do as individuals, but companies need to be vigilant about the fact that this targeting does occur and there are criminal organisations that are globally based."

s family was home, the housekeepers were allowed to enter the house only to perform cleaning functions. According to the complaint, that created situations in which housekeepers could not exit the laundry room because its only door led into the residence.

Instead of going out that door, housekeepers for a period of 18 months would sometimes have to climb out the laundry room window onto a path that led to a mechanical room, enter through the mechanical room, and go downstairs to a bathroom.

"Because there was no readily accessible bathroom, Plaintiff and other housekeepers spend large parts of their day unable to use the toilet even though they needed to," the complaint says. "As a result of this, the housekeepers frequently developed Urinary Tract Infections."

Harry Korrell, a lawyer for Bezos, called the claims absurd and said Wedaa filed the lawsuit against Bezos and two companies that manage his properties and personal investments only after her demand for a US$9 million ($14m) payout was rejected.