Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Capital One reveals massive data breach affecting 106M people. One person arrested.

Virginia-based Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) said late Monday that about 106 million people who had applied for credit cards and credit card products had their personal information accessed — the result the company attributed to a hack by an “outside individual.” The FBI has arrested Paige Thompson, a systems engineer, on a charge of computer fraud and abuse, according to documents filed Monday by agent Joel Martini in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington…



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