"Capital One Breach: Info on 106 Million Customers Compromised, Hacker Arrested"
It has been discovered that Capital One, has been affected by a massive data breach, which allowed the attacker to retrieve information related to people who had applied for its credit card products and to Capital One credit card customers. Approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada were affected by this breach. Beyond the credit card application data, the individual also obtained portions of credit card customer data, including: customer status data, for example: credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information, and fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018. The company also discovered that credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were not compromised, but that around 140,000 Social Security numbers of their credit card customers, around 80,000 linked bank account numbers of their secured credit card customers, and approximately 1 million Social Insurance Numbers of their Canadian credit card customers were. The individual responsible for this data breach has been arrested.