'No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than: about 140,000 Social Security numbers of our credit card customers' and 'about 80,000 linked bank account numbers of
Capital One's statement about a recently exposed data breach that compromised user information of more than 100 million people in the U.S. and 6 million in Canada appeared to downplay the significance of the security failure.
"No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than: about 140,000 Social Security numbers of our credit card customers" and"about 80,000 linked bank account numbers of our secured credit card customers," the company wrote in its Monday night statement about the breach."For our Canadian credit card customers, approximately 1 million Social Insurance Numbers were compromised in this incident.
Paige Thompson, a 33-year-old living in Seattle, has been accused of breaking into the company's serversThe Capital One statement noted that no credit card account numbers orcredentials were compromised and that 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not either."I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right," CEO Richard D.said in the statement.
The Capital One breach is just the latest in a series of attacks that have compromised vast amounts of personal information in recent years, illuminating the vulnerability of sensitive user data.
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