Hackers broke into Capital One Bank and obtained data from 106 million customers

The suspect allegedly previously worked in the cloud service Amazon, where the bank stored customer data.

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Hackers broke into the base of the American Capital One bank and got access to 106 millions of credit cards, thousands of social security numbers and bank accounts, writes Tjournal with reference to The Wall Street Journal.

Hackers gained access to credit card information issued from 2005 to 2019. The hacking affected 140 thousands of social security numbers, 80 thousands of bank accounts, as well as credit histories, statements, addresses, dates of birth and income levels of bank customers.

On suspicion of committing a crime, police arrested 33-year-old Paige Thompson from Seattle, Wash. She was charged with cyber fraud, in particular, bypassing the protection of Capital One in order to gain access to personal data of users. The bank kept them on the Amazon Web Services cloud service.

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According to the sources of the publication, before Thompson worked at Amazon Web Services. In the criminal case, it is stated that in the period from 2015 to 2016, she served as a systems specialist in the cloud computing service, the name of which the state did not indicate.

Representatives of the bank believe that the data were unlikely to be distributed or used for fraudulent purposes. The investigation believes that Thompson was going to publish information on the network. The bank estimated the damage from hacking in 100-150 million dollars.

A similar data leak incident happened in September of 2017 with Equifax. Hackers managed to access 147 personal data of millions of Americans. After that, the company's shares fell by 6%.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• In September, Equifax in the US 2017, the credit bureaus reported theft of personal data 143 million Americans (information about 147 million later appeared). According to the report, hackers received data from May to July 2017. They were also able to get the data of 209 credit cards of thousands of people. What to do, if your data were stolen.
• In essence, this means that the data were practically at risk. every second resident of America. The social security number is given once for life, so if your data is already in the hands of fraudsters, then you can become the person on whose behalf they will try to get a tax refund in any of the following years after the hacking. We wrote about the steps that need to do to protect themselves from this situation.
• Seattle resident Cathy Van Fleet said her identity has been stolen xnumx times since the moment of the hacker attack and data leakage from Equifax. “I received letters from Kohl's, Macy's, Home Depot and Old Navy with gratitude for“ my application ”,” Van Fleet said.
• 26 July 2019, it became known that Equifax starts to pay compensation for victims who may file a class action claim for a sum of 700 million dollars, the amount includes 380 500 000 dollars of restitution.

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