Neowin wrote:An astounding 106 million accounts and credit card applications belonging to mega finance corporation Capital One's customers have been illegally accessed as a result of a recent hack into the company's systems. The breach occurred in March and was discovered on July 19. It has now been fixed. The purported hacker has also been apprehended.
Capital One provided an inventory of the information compromised - which belongs to 100 million US customers and 6 million Canadians - as follows:
names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income
Customer status data, e.g., credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information
Fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018
No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than:
About 140,000 Social Security numbers of our credit card customers
About 80,000 linked bank account numbers of our secured credit card customers
One million Social Insurance Numbers belonging to Canadian customers were also leaked.
Thompson, the individual arrested for hacking the bank holding company, was apparently caught after she was found boasting about the hack on online forums. She was apprehended at her Seattle home on July 29, along with several digital devices, and is set to have a hearing in court on August 1.
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