Identity Theft
What Capital One Got Wrong (and Right) After the Breach
Reported by securityboulevard.com
The Capital One breach and the need for communications. With over 106 million customers and applicants’ personal data exposed, the Capital One breach is one of the biggest breaches of a financial institution in US history. A former employee of Amazon’s cloud-computing unit was able to exploit a vulnerability in Capital One’s cloud service provider AWS,exposing some 140,000 Social Security Numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers of US customers.