The hacker behind the breach has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One.
Capital One Financial Corporation, a United States-based bank holding company has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial data of over 106 million customers has been accessed and stolen.
Out of 106 million, 100 million customers are US-based while 6 million are from Canada. The data breach took place on March 22nd and 23rd earlier this year but the company identified the incident on July 19, 2019.
According to a press release from the company, the data accessed in the breach includes information on customers who applied for the company’s credit card from 2005 through early 2019. This information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, zip/postal codes, dates of birth and self-reported income.
Furthermore, credit scores, payment history, limits, balances and contact information of the company’s credit card users were also accessed by the hacker. Approximately, 140,000 social security numbers of credit card customers and about 80,000 linked bank account numbers of secured credit card customers were also among breached data.
The alleged hacker has been caught
While Capital One’s incident can be considered as one of the largest data breaches in the financial world, the alleged hacker behind the hacking saga has been arrested by authorities.
The US justice department has acknowledged that Paige Adele Thompson (33) was arrested on Monday by the FBI from Seattle and
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