Massive breach compromises data at credit card giant Capital One

[TheBlackAdder]

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A tech engineer in the western US state of Washington was arrested Monday on charges of stealing sensitive data from more than 100 million credit card applications at financial heavyweight Capital One.

Paige Thompson, 33, a former Seattle technology company software engineer, was nabbed by FBI agents after she boasted about the data theft one of the biggest to hit a financial services company on the information sharing site GitHub, authorities said.

“The intrusion occurred through a misconfigured web application firewall that enabled access to the data,” a statement by the US attorney’s office in Washington said.
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It said the Virginia-based bank that specializes in credit cards contacted the FBI after confirming the data theft, which took place between March 12 and July 17 of this year.

“According to Capital One, the data includes data regarding large numbers of (credit card) applications, likely tens of millions of applications,” according to the criminal complaint.

In a statement, Capital One said the hack affected 100 million individuals in the United States and six million in Canada.

“Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of social security numbers were not compromised,” the bank said.


https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/massive-breach-compromises-data-at-credit-card-giant-capital-one/

Here we go again.

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[Opel_Justwax]

1. Internet Security and Privacy are a myth in the 21st Century

[ExciteBike66]

2. This lady is just asking for a beat-down from Samuel L....

[CentralMass]

3. I just read about this last night and checked my emails from Capital One and there was nothing about

it. I had to log into their app and at the top there was a link to a statment about it. I'm underwhelmed. I don't check their app that often.

[uponit7771]

4. damn well, its only 100 million affected this time. Our election systems are less secure than our ba

... our banking systems.

Put money on that.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Who's in your wallet? n/t

[CentralMass]

6. Now that's funny.

[customerserviceguy]

7. Advertising slogans

can be so funny when things go haywire!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. "What's in YOUR wallet?"

Hackers. Hackers are your wallet, Capital One.