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Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications

Posted by Deimos
Tags: usa, canada, credit cards, capital one, data, data breaches, author.devlin barrett, source.the washington post, paywall.hard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capital-one-data-breach-compromises-tens-of-millions-of-credit-card-applications-fbi-says/2019/07/29/72114cc2-b243-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html

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Devlin Barrett
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    Here's the DOJ press release: Seattle Tech Worker Arrested for Data Theft Involving Large Financial Services Company And Capital One's official page about it (including a separate FAQ page). The...

    Here's the DOJ press release: Seattle Tech Worker Arrested for Data Theft Involving Large Financial Services Company

    And Capital One's official page about it (including a separate FAQ page).

    The (PDF) actual complaint document linked from the DOJ release is very short and readable too. The suspect made a lot of mistakes, and it shows the kind of information and story they can put together pretty easily now by just correlating activity across different sites that all keep histories.

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