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As a result of the hacking of one of the largest US banking holdings, Capital One, more than 106 million clients of a financial institution have been leaked . The incident Capital One reported on its website . On the leak became known on July 19. A hacker woman, Paige Thompson, was arrested on Monday. It is reported that she "boasted about hacking on the Internet."
In particular, it is known that “an outsider made unauthorized access, having received a certain type of personal data about people who applied for issuing credit cards, as well as about Capital One credit card holders”.
The company believes that the personal data of customers who submitted applications between 2005 and 2019 suffered more. And this is about 100 million people in the United States and another 6 million users in Canada. The cracker gained access to names, addresses, postal codes, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, income information, as well as credit ratings, balance sheets, payment histories, and Capital One customer contact information.
However, the information about the account numbers of credit card users for Thompson remained unavailable .
According to Capital One, in the United States about 140 thousand social security numbers were cracked, as well as 80 thousand bank account numbers associated with them. In Canada, approximately 1 million social security numbers were cracked.
The US Social Security Number is a unique nine-digit number used for tax and pension accounting.
According to the BBC , data leakage is one of the largest in banking history.
Capital One clarified that the cracker took advantage of the "vulnerability of the company's infrastructure configuration."
In a statement, the US Department of Justice said that Capital One received a message about the possible involvement of the arrested hacker to hacking from one of the users of GitHub.
Capital One is confident the information has not been used for fraud, but will continue to investigate the leak. Capital One will notify affected customers and provide them with free credit monitoring and identity protection.
“Of course, I am grateful for the fact that the attacker was caught, but I am very sorry that this happened at all,” said the head of Capital One, Richard Fairbank.According to the US Department of Justice , Page Thompson is 33 years old and has previously worked as a programmer at one of the Seattle technology companies. She first appeared in the federal court of the city. The maximum penalty she faces is imprisonment for a term of five years and a fine of $ 250 thousand.
In particular, it is known that “an outsider made unauthorized access, having received a certain type of personal data about people who applied for issuing credit cards, as well as about Capital One credit card holders”.
The company believes that the personal data of customers who submitted applications between 2005 and 2019 suffered more. And this is about 100 million people in the United States and another 6 million users in Canada. The cracker gained access to names, addresses, postal codes, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, income information, as well as credit ratings, balance sheets, payment histories, and Capital One customer contact information.
However, the information about the account numbers of credit card users for Thompson remained unavailable .
According to Capital One, in the United States about 140 thousand social security numbers were cracked, as well as 80 thousand bank account numbers associated with them. In Canada, approximately 1 million social security numbers were cracked.
The US Social Security Number is a unique nine-digit number used for tax and pension accounting.
According to the BBC , data leakage is one of the largest in banking history.
Capital One clarified that the cracker took advantage of the "vulnerability of the company's infrastructure configuration."
In a statement, the US Department of Justice said that Capital One received a message about the possible involvement of the arrested hacker to hacking from one of the users of GitHub.
Capital One is confident the information has not been used for fraud, but will continue to investigate the leak. Capital One will notify affected customers and provide them with free credit monitoring and identity protection.
“Of course, I am grateful for the fact that the attacker was caught, but I am very sorry that this happened at all,” said the head of Capital One, Richard Fairbank.According to the US Department of Justice , Page Thompson is 33 years old and has previously worked as a programmer at one of the Seattle technology companies. She first appeared in the federal court of the city. The maximum penalty she faces is imprisonment for a term of five years and a fine of $ 250 thousand.