https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/capital-one-breach-was-inevitable/
By Zack Whittaker
TechCrunch.com
July 29, 2019
Another day, another massive data breach.
This time it's the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One, which
revealed on Monday a credit file breach affecting 100 million Americans and 6
million Canadians. Consumers and small businesses affected are those who
obtained one of the company’s credit cards dating back to 2005.
That includes names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, self-reported
income and more credit card application data -- including over 140,000 Social
Security numbers in the U.S., and more than a million in Canada.
The FBI already has a suspect in custody. Seattle resident and software
developer Paige A. Thompson, 33, was arrested and detained pending trial. She’s
been accused of stealing data by breaching a web application firewall, which
was supposed to protect it.
Sound familiar? It should. Just last week, credit rating giant Equifax settled
for more than $575 million over a date breach it had -- and hid from the public
for several months -- two years prior.
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