Capital One Financial Corp has agreed to pay an $80 million penalty after the bank suffered a massive data breach that affected more than 100 million customer records in July 2019.
The breach was the result of an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket that housed credit card applications with names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses and dates of birth of customers. The exposed data also included 140,000 Social Security numbers, 80,000 of which linked bank...
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