Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants

Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants

More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer


A hacker raided Capital One's cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit applicants in America and Canada.


The swiped data includes 140,000 US social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, we're told, as well as one million Canadian social insurance numbers, plus names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and reported incomes.


The pilfered data was submitted to Capital One by credit card hopefuls between 2005 and early 2019. The info was siphoned between March this year and July 17, and Capital One learned of the intrusion on July 19.


Seattle software engineer Paige A. Thompson, aka "erratic," aka 0xA3A97B6C on Twitter, was suspected of nicking the data, and collared by the FB ..

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