[mdlug] Capital One Data Breach

[Peter Bart]

On July 30, 2019 4:58:33 PM EDT, Gib <gibmaxn at gmail.com> wrote:
>I got a credit card application form Capital One today.
>
>They just announced that they had 100 million customer's data stolen.
>Great timing on the mailing for the application.
>
>Anybody see any details on the breach?  All I heard was one firewall
>was configured incorrectly.
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That sounds about what happened. Looks like it may have been partially an inside job? 

<https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/29/capital-one-data-breach/>

<https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49159859>
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