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Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants
180,000 SSNs nicked, Seattle woman cuffed, charged
Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants
180,000 SSNs nicked, Seattle woman cuffed, charged
By Shaun Nichols in San Francisco 30 Jul 2019 at 00:16
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Developing Capital One says a hacker made off with account details on more than 100 million of its customers in the US and Canada.
A Seattle woman has already been arrested and charged in connection with the hack on a cloud storage bucket containing Capital One information. The woman, Paige Thompson, faces a charge of violating the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Court filings [PDF] accuse Thompson of entering the cloud repository between March 12 and July 17 and posted the information on her personal Github page - which includes her full name. It is also claimed she bragged about the hack publicly on social media.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/30/capital_one_hacked/
Excellent questions Anon. I have been wondering the same thing. Every hack gets bigger and more information in compromised. There is no security on any hardware due to Chinese comped chip sets. So what groups are performing these hacks. Deep state? Other state actors. Is it just a ruse to keep the deep dark web bad guys with hoodie sweatshirts going? Is it plausible deniability? not sure