>Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) said on Monday that personal information including names and addresses of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker who has been arrested.
>[Paige] Thompson posted information from her hack, which occurred between March 12 and July 17, on coding platform GitHub. Another user saw the post and notified Capital One of the breach.
>hacker was able to gain access to the data through a misconfigured web application firewall, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-capital-one-fin-cyber/capital-one-says-information-of-over-100-million-individuals-in-u-s-canada-hacked-idUSKCN1UO2EB
>[Paige] Thompson posted information from her hack, which occurred between March 12 and July 17, on coding platform GitHub. Another user saw the post and notified Capital One of the breach.
>hacker was able to gain access to the data through a misconfigured web application firewall, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-capital-one-fin-cyber/capital-one-says-information-of-over-100-million-individuals-in-u-s-canada-hacked-idUSKCN1UO2EB