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100 million Capital One credit card applications hacked: What you need to know (and do next) |
July 31, 2019
You can reset the “Days Since Hack” counter back to zero.On Monday night, Capital One revealed that more than 100 million customers had their personal information hacked, including credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, and contact information, as well as 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers of secured credit card customers.Here’s what happened and what you can do to protect yourself:How did the hack occur?
Capital One has divulged that there was “unauthorized access by an outside individual” who was able to obtain “certain types of personal information” relating to credit card applicants. It blamed the hack on a “configuration vulnerability” in its infrastructure that was hacked by a “highly sophisticated” attack. Capital One says that the vulnerability wasn’t cloud-based and “the elements of infrastructure involved are common to both cloud and on-premises data center environments.”To read this article in full, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3428616/capital-one-credit-card-application-hack-faq.html#tk.rss_all
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