Why the Capital One breach is unlike any other major hack
Capital One is dealing with what will likely be one of the most important breaches of the year.
The incident involved theft of more than 100 million customer records, 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank details of Capital One customers, allegedly stolen by a single insider, according to court filings in Seattle.
The details set it apart from breaches of companies like Equifax and Marriott, which were attacked from the outside by criminals with a nation-state connection. It's also different from the spate of ransomware attacks against major U.S. cities, which were likely committed by groups of individuals outside the U.S.
Instead, according to the indictment of Paige Thompson, she was able to exploit a loophole in a Capital One cloud server's firewall to gain access to the information.
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