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Oh goody, another massive data breach. This time it's Capital One.

Capital One said Monday personal information, including Social Security and bank account numbers, of more than 100 million individuals was compromised in a massive data theft that led to the arrest of a Seattle woman.

Paige A. Thompson is accused of stealing data from Capital One credit card applications in what is likely among the largest data breaches ever.

The FBI arrested Thompson Monday for the theft, which occurred between March 12 and July 17, court records show. Among the data allegedly collected from a company cloud-based server were Social Security and bank account numbers. https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-data-breach-hits-capital-234238853.html
 

A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested on Monday on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for hacking into stored data of Capital One Financial Corp.

Paige Thompson, 33, made her initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday and was ordered detained pending a hearing on August 1, the statement said.

Capital One said personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker.


Seattle woman, 33, is arrested for huge Capital One hack after 'stealing data from more than ONE HUNDRED MILLION credit card customers and applicants in America and Canada'
  • Paige Thompson, 33, was arrested on Monday by federal authorities
  • Justice Department alleges Thompson hacked into Capital One data system
  • Lender says hacking affected personal data of about 100 million customers
  • Capital One received tip on July 17 indicating its systems were hacked
  • FBI says it used IP addresses to trace the source of the alleged hack
  • Thompson allegedly admitted to the hack in online chats on Slack and Twitter
By Reuters and Associated Press and Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com
Published: 01:30, 30 July 2019 | Updated: 06:04, 30 July 2019




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A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested on Monday on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for hacking into stored data of Capital One Financial Corp.
Paige Thompson, 33, made her initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday and was ordered detained pending a hearing on August 1, the statement said.
Capital One said personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker.
Paige Thompson, 33, of Seattle, Washington, made her initial appearance in federal court on Monday, according to the Justice Department


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Paige Thompson, 33, of Seattle, Washington, made her initial appearance in federal court on Monday, according to the Justice Department
The FBI alleges that Thompson, a systems engineer, admitted to hacking Capital One in private online chat rooms


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The FBI alleges that Thompson, a systems engineer, admitted to hacking Capital One in private online chat rooms
Capital One said personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker. The image above shows a Capital One location in San Francisco


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Capital One said personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker. The image above shows a Capital One location in San Francisco


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The McLean, Virginia-based bank said Monday it found out about the vulnerability in its system July 19 and immediately sought help from law enforcement to catch the perpetrator.

Capital One says it believes that it is unlikely that the information was used for fraud , but it will continue to investigate.

The hacker got information including credit scores and balances plus the Social Security numbers of about 140,000 customers.

It will offer free credit monitoring services to those affected.

'Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised,' Capital One said in a statement.
 
There will be no end to this. There is NO security (and I was in IT in a former life). All you can do is have good passwords, different on every site you use them, and to change them regularly. Along with that, monitor your CC or DC. If not needed, freeze your credit.
 

I froze my credit reports after the Experian breach but I wonder how many lenders actually use credit reports these days.

I'm thinking that most credit decisions are based on FICO score without actually seeing the detail on the credit report.
 
People think their a genius when they do this. The reality is that itā€™s really not that big of a deal to hack a companyā€™s computer. I just wonder how she/he was able to log or sign into their IT network. My first inclination has always been that someone on the inside may be sharing some of the companyā€™s security knowledge, like maybe an IP address or a password or if the program they are trying to get into has a back door written into it. Once in the system, the hacking isnā€™t all that difficult. Hackers will sometimes use what is called a Trojan Horse, which is a program that will trick the computer user into thinking itā€™s something necessary for the business and not a security breach. Once the TH gets inside the computer, it gathers the information that itā€™s programmed to gather.

I would think other charges will be added, depending on what the hacker did with the information. Either way, this person is looking at some serious jail time.
 
What does it really mean to any one individual when someone has access to 100 million accounts? .. I'm asking.
The damage she/he could cause to YOU personally is fairly slim I would think. ..... unless of course, you were an unfortunate one, and your information looked attractive enough to go after.
 
Bonnie said:
What does it really mean to any one individual when someone has access to 100 million accounts? .. I'm asking.
The damage she/he could cause to YOU personally is fairly slim I would think. ..... unless of course, you were an unfortunate one, and your information looked attractive enough to go after.
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Usually the hacker sells the information files to the scum on the "dark web."

"Itā€™s also estimated that approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers were compromised. The bank account numbers of about 80,000 customers were also put at risk.

In a news release, Capital One explained that the ā€œlargest category of information accessed 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. This information included personal information Capital One routinely collects at the time it receives credit card applications, including names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income.ā€

 
We can blame these hackers all day long but why is it that our institutions can't anticipate these events? Granted, they do offer some protection but not all. This internet planet is very scary when you realize what else could be hacked in to.....and will be eventually.
 
Capital One runs the GM card for one, I think, or at least they did at one time.
 
C'est Moi said:
Usually the hacker sells the information files to the scum on the "dark web."

"Itā€™s also estimated that approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers were compromised. The bank account numbers of about 80,000 customers were also put at risk.

In a news release, Capital One explained that the ā€œlargest category of information accessed 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. This information included personal information Capital One routinely collects at the time it receives credit card applications, including names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income.ā€
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ok . . (Duh!! my brain is fried from the sun).. the dark web, land of illicit everything
 
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Capital One hacking suspect Paige Thompson presented herself on social media as a cat-loving software engineer, who found it hard to make friends and was open about her struggles as a transgender woman.


But federal prosecutors said Monday that there was much more to the 33-year-old Seattle residentā€™s life ā€” as they accused her of being the person behind one of the largest data breaches in history.


An FBI investigation concluded Thompson ā€” who allegedly went by the online handle ā€œErraticā€ ā€” used her computer skills to obtain the personal information of more than 100 million Capital One credit card customers and applicants, and intended to share it online.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/30/who-is-alleged-capital-one-hacker-paige-thompson/
 
Marie5656 said:
I find it offensive to use the word "it" referring to a Transgender person. Please think twice before using such language as you never know who is in the lives of people reading this forum. @squatting dog Any person on this forum may have a loved one who is trans...and not an IT
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"The sex is determined by the sex chromosomes. If the sex chromosome pair has Y chromosome, the fetus will develop as male child. If no Y and sex pair is XX composition, the child will develop as female". I stand by "it"
 
"It" does sound offensive, though. It's kind of strange, because the trans people themselves seem to like the pronoun "they," even when referring to just one person. I find "they" confusing. If we don't know whether a person is male or female, we all use "they" as a general sort of pronoun. As in: Anyone can do what they want.

But when I read an article in the paper (as I did recently) about a trans person, where it kept referring to this person as "they," I kept expecting multiple people to show up.
 

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