Capital One Data Breach Exposes More Than 100 Million Customers
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Capital One revealed there had been unauthorized access to their servers by an "outside individual."
The hacker, identified as Paige Thompson, was a previous employee of Amazon Web Services. According to the FBI, she was able to access Capital One’s data through a web browser's misconfigured firewall.
Thompson gained access to 140,000 Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers.
An undisclosed number of people also had their personal information such as names, addresses and credit scores obtained by Thompson. In total, 100 million people in the United States and 6 million in Canada were affected by the breach.
Capital One will reportedly notify all those who were affected and expects to incur at least $100 million in costs related to the hack.
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