Approximately one million social insurance numbers were compromised
A massive security breach at credit card giant Capital One Financial has compromised the personal data of roughly 106 million people, including six million Canadians, and left approximately 1 million social insurance numbers exposed.
“The largest category of information was information on consumers and small businesses as of the time they applied for one of our credit card products from 2005 through early 2019,” the credit card issuer said in a statement, noting that routinely collected information includes names, addresses, postal codes, phone numbers, dates of birth and income.
On June 18, Thompson sent a message on Twitter to another user saying, “Ive basically strapped myself with a bomb vest, dropping capitol ones dox and admitting it.” “AWS was not compromised in any way and functioned as designed,” a company spokesperson said Tuesday. “The perpetrator gained access through a misconfiguration of the web application and not the underlying cloud-based infrastructure. As Capital One explained clearly in its disclosure, this type of vulnerability is not specific to the cloud.”
In addition to credit card application data such as phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and self-reported income, the hacker was also able to access credit scores, credit limits and balances, as well as fragments of transaction information from a total of 23 days in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In Canada, Desjardins Group revealed a data breach in June that saw the leak of names, addresses, birthdates, social insurance numbers and other private information from roughly 2.7 million people and 173,000 businesses.
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