The alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, was arrested on Monday after reportedly boasting about the breach online. Capital One said the data included names, addresses and phone numbers of people who ...

Data breaches have resulted in people's information being exposed on the dark web. While thieves often try to misuse this ...

The consent order said Capital One has committed to fixing the problem. Email to Capital One requesting comment wasn't immediately returned. Among the largest of its kind on record, the 2019 breach ...

Paige Thompson, a 36-year-old former Amazon employee, has been convicted for seven federal crimes by the US District Court in Seattle, all originating from a massive breach at Capital One that ...

Capital One revealed on Monday that approximately 100 million customers in the US and six million in Canada were affected by a data breach. Unfortunately, data breaches are nothing new ...

In December 2021, Capital One agreed to pay $190 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against it by U.S. customers over a 2019 data breach that affected 100 million people. This ...

What a month! De ja vu all over again. Over the past year or so I’ve written about broadband access, loving/hating Amazon, the Capital One data breach, civilian surveillance, Microsoft ...

The senators have asked FTC chairman Joseph Simons to open an investigation into AWS’ potential culpability in the Capital One breach, revealed in July, by a former AWS employee who gained ...

This checks out with the complaint, which states that Thompson is a former employee of the same "Cloud Computing Company" at issue in the Capital One breach and worked there during the same time span.