The bank holding company already fixed the vulnerability exploited by the hacker, who obtained customers credit card application data and portions of customers’ credit card data including:
- Customer status data, e.g., credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information
- Fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018
Capital One assured that no bank account numbers and Social Security numbers were compromised except:
- around 140,000 Social Security numbers of its credit card customers
- approximately 80,000 linked bank account numbers of is secured credit card customers
FBI arrested hacker responsible for the Capital One data breach
In addition, the bank holding company revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified and arrested the hacker responsible for the data breach.
The FBI filed a criminal complaint against Paige Thompson for allegedly committing computer fraud and abuse related to the Capital One data breach. Thompson is a former software engineer at a technology company based in Seattle.
