Credit card issuer Capital One Financial Corp 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.<\/p>\n
The suspect, a 33-year-old former Seattle technology company software engineer identified as Paige Thompson, made her initial appearance in US District Court in Seattle on Monday, the US Attorney’s office said.<\/p>\n
The incident is expected to cost between $100 million and $150 million in 2019, mainly due to customer notifications, credit monitoring and legal support, Capital One said.<\/p>\n
A representative for the US Attorney’s office said it was not immediately clear what the suspect’s motive was.<\/p>\n
The hacker did not gain access to credit card account numbers, but about 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were compromised, Capital One said.<\/p>\n
About one million social insurance numbers belonging to the company’s Canadian credit card customers were also compromised.<\/p>\n
The hacker was able to gain access to the data through a misconfigured web application firewall, the US Attorney’s office said.<\/p>\n
Capital One shares fell four percent in late extended trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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