Monday, July 29, Bank holding company Capital One Financial Corporation said earlier this year that hacker from Seattle illegally gained access to more than 100 million accounts of their customers credit cards.
According to Federal prosecutors, between March 12 and July 17, 33-year-old Paige A. Thompson hacked the Bank’s server located in the cloud Amazon Web Services.
The Department of justice claims that Thompson has posted on the website for the exchange of information GitHub the announcement of the data theft Capital One. Hacker was arrested and brought before the Federal court of Seattle, July 29. Thompson was charged with computer fraud, and faces a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a fine of 250 thousand dollars.
According to the Bank, the data of applications for credit cards submitted in the period from 2005 to 2019, the largest portion of the stolen information — the names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of applicants and financial data, including income and fragments of history transactions.
According to a statement from Capital One, hacking has touched 100 million people in the US and 6 million people in Canada. The Bank reported that Thompson stole about 140 000 social security numbers and 80,000 Bank account numbers.
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Capital One claim that they already fixed the problem and that the data is likely not used for the purpose of fraud or disclosure. Despite this, shares of Capital One fell by 6.5% on Tuesday morning — the largest decline in six months.
