Another Month, Another Major Data Breach – This Time at Capital One
Capital One Financial Corp., the fifth largest United States credit card issuer, announced on July 29, 2019 that a data breach exposed approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and about 80,000 linked bank account numbers – impacting nearly 100 million U.S. residents and 6 million Canadian residents. The breach also included other personal information like names, addresses, postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income, credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information and fragments of transaction data from a total…
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