Another week, another breach. This time, credit card company Capital One announced that it discovered a data breach about 10 days ago affecting around 106 million customers. It looks like part of the reason that they waited 10 days to announce it is because they were working with the FBI to get the person responsible. You can read Capital One’s version of events and information about what happened here. If you want more details about how the FBI apprehended the woman responsible for the breach and how she carried out the breach, check out this story on Krebs on Security. It has interesting details like how she was a former employee of a certain cloud service provider and how the FBI found her. It doesn’t look like any passwords or login information was compromised, but keep an eye out for communications from Capital One indicating whether your accounts were affected.
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