The data heist at Capital One showed that even big companies don’t fully secure their data—or at least not all of it
The Capital One Financial Corp. data theft raises questions about companies’ reliance on security practices that fail to fully protect sensitive information from hackers.
After a breach, regulators, prosecutors and experts delve into whether and how a company encrypts data. Equifax Inc., under a settlement announced last week, is required to improve its encryption of sensitive data. Hackers infiltrated Equifax’s network and exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information that was stored in plain text.
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