Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-07-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Capital One
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Paige Thompson
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Capital One discloses a data breach impacting 100 million people in the United States, and 6 million in Canada. Data between 2005 and 2019 was accessed and related to information on consumers at the time when they applied for a credit card.