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By Uzair Amir
The hacker behind the breach (Paige Adele Thompson) has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One.
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In one of the biggest data breaches, a hacker by the name Paige Thompson gained access to more than 140,000 Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, in addition to an undisclosed number of pe… Continue reading The Capital One Data Breach and what can you do to Protect Yourself
Global financial services company Capital One has just announced a massive data breach. Continue reading Capital One breach – 100 million users’ data stolen
The hacker who allegedly infiltrated Capital One to access personal information belonging to roughly 106 million people made it easy for the FBI to track her down: there were clues spread across a variety of popular websites. Paige A. Thompson, a 33-year-old Seattle-based software engineer, bragged about taking data from Capital One’s Amazon Web Services instances on a private Slack channel and a public GitHub post from an account that displayed her full name. When another GitHub user noticed Thompson’s claims, they alerted Capital One, and it wasn’t long before the bureau was involved. In one private message included in the complaint, Thompson allegedly told a friend via Slack, “I’ve basically strapped myself with a bomb vest, f—ing dropping Capital One dox and admitting it. I wanna distribute those buckets …There’s SSNs..with full name and [date of birth].” Thompson’s Github page also linked to her GitLab profile, which included her […]
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More than 100 million customers have had their data compromised by a hacker after a cloud misconfiguration at Capital One. Continue reading Former AWS Engineer Arrested as Capital One Admits Massive Data Breach
Capital One, one of the largest banks in the United States by assets, has announced that it has suffered a massive data breach affecting the personal and financial information of some 106 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada. Simultaneously, the … Continue reading Capital One breach: Info on 106 million customers compromised, hacker arrested
The FBI has arrested a 33-year-old software engineer in Seattle as part of an investigation into a massive data breach at financial services company Capital One.
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The FBI has arrested a 33-year-old software engineer in Seattle as part of an investigation into a massive data breach at financial services company Capital One.
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Financial giant Capital One announced a large data breach Monday, with the company saying that one person accessed personal information of approximately 100 million people in the United States and 6 million in Canada who had applied for or are currently considered users of the company’s credit cards. Additionally, the FBI arrested a woman in Washington state who is suspected of hacking into the company to obtain that information. Paige A. Thompson was arrested Monday and appeared in federal court in Seattle. According to the complaint, Thompson allegedly took wide swaths of personal information from Capital One’s cloud storage instances on March 22 and March 23. The company stored the data taken by Thompson on Amazon Web Services. The company says this information included names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income. The information ranged from 2005 to early 2019. Additionally, Capital One […]
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