Lessons Learned The Capital One Breach
Names Addresses (with postal codes) Phone numbers Email addresses Birth dates 140,000 Social Security Numbers 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers 80,000 linked bank accounts’ information Status data (credit scores and limits, balances, payment history and contact information) Transaction fragments from 23 days between 2016 and 2018 The attack was discovered due to the fact that the hacker bragged about her exploits against Capital One and other organizations on GitHub. An ethical hacker discovered and reported the posts, leading to rapid remediation efforts by Capital One....