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Capital One hacked, over 100 million customers affected

Capital One was hacked earlier this month, the company has disclosed.

A notice about the data breach is currently being broadcast from the company’s home page.

Here’s what we know so far:

  • Capital One believes the breach exposed credit card application data for those who’d applied between 2005 and 2019.
  • The company says this works out to roughly 100 million individuals in the US, and 6 million in Canada.
  • The data leaked potentially includes “names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income” of those who’d applied, as well as information like “credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information”
  • Capital One is estimating that roughly 140,000 social security numbers were potentially compromised in the US, as well as 80,000 linked bank account numbers. In Canada, roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers were compromised.
  • Transaction data for “a total of 23 days” spread across 2016/2017/2018 was obtained

A notice from the US Department of Justice says that Seattle engineer Paige A. Thompson was arrested in connection with the breach this morning.

Story developing..



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